Jason Thorpe writes:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:37:53 -0400 (EDT)
> Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Has anybody noticed that scheduling appears to be broken on the alpha?
> >
> > On both i386 & alpha, try:
> >
> > echo "main(){for(;;);}" > foo.c
> > cc foo.c
> > /usr/bin/nice -20 ./a.out & ; ./a.out &
>
> FWIW, Ross Harvey fixed a whole slew of scheduler bugs in NetBSD that
> tickled themselves on the Alpha (due to it's high statclock rate).
>
> -- Jason R. Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jason,
Thanks for the pointer. I think I've gleaned a fix to the FreeBSD/alpha
niceness problem.
Drew
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