On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:07:49AM -0400, James Bruce wrote: > Nonlinear is a must IMO. I would suggest X = exp(ln(10)/10) ~= 1.2589 > That value has the property that a nice=10 task gets 1/10th the cpu of a > nice=0 task, and a nice=20 task gets 1/100 of nice=0. I think that > would be fairly easy to explain to admins and users so that they can > know what to expect from nicing tasks. [...additional good commentary trimmed...]
Lots of good ideas here. I'll follow them. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
