Hi, On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Suppose that there are two autogroups competing for the same > CPU. The first group contains ten CPU-bound processes from a > kernel build started with make -j10. The other contains a sin‐ > gle CPU-bound process: a video player. The effect of auto‐ > grouping is that the two groups will each receive half of the > CPU cycles. That is, the video player will receive 50% of the > CPU cycles, rather just 9% of the cycles, which would likely ^^^^ than ? Regards afzal > lead to degraded video playback. Or to put things another way: > an autogroup that contains a large number of CPU-bound pro‐ > cesses does not end up overwhelming the CPU at the expense of > the other jobs on the system.