Con Kolivas wrote:
The practice of renicing kernel threads to negative nice values is of questionable benefit at best, and at worst leads to larger latencies when kernel threads are busy on behalf of other tasks.
What about the priority implications of the renicing? It seems a bit iffy letting kernel threads compete for cpu time on an equal basis with your default shell.
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