On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:41:07AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > > All interactive tasks are very responsive. My nice -5'd looping process > > > is getting 70% of the cpu and my compile is taking the rest. nice +20 may > > > not behave as well as in sched_4bsd right now. I'm going to work on that.
> Althought much better, KDE is still almost unusable, XFree and KDE > startup takes a lot more time and starting plain xterm under KDE > takes x3 time than usual. When I kill one of the seti processes, all > comes down to normal. The one remaining seti process takes 53% of > CPU constantly. Don't know how top calculates process CPU usage, but > if the 100% is spread over the two processors, then the seti process > monopolises one of the processors constantly. Doesn't matter will it > run nice 19 or idprio 31. As noted in Jeff's original mail, niced processes do not behave nicely yet. Kris
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