hub...@feyrer.de (Hubert Feyrer) writes:
>I tried playing with these, but I didn't see a difference. I didn't fully
>get the meaning of this - as far as I understand, one extreme (1? 99?)
>gives much weight to the previous value and avoids switching
>short-handedly, the other one puts weight on newly occurring processes on
>a cpu and favors switching. But I'm not sure which is which, and if this
>is true at all. Yet another magic knob for our scheduler ;)
For the simple "N busy processes" case it probably doesn't make a
difference because current value and average are the same after
a very short time.
The value 100 is a bit pathological as it keeps the historical average
at its last value and ignores the current count.
--
--
Michael van Elst
Internet: mlel...@serpens.de
"A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
