On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:07 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > By breaking the UNIX model of nice levels. Not an option in my book. > > Breaking user expectations of nice levels is?
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html specifically: "3.239 Nice Value A number used as advice to the system to alter process scheduling. Numerically smaller values give a process additional preference when scheduling a process to run. Numerically larger values reduce the preference and make a process less likely to run. Typically, a process with a smaller nice value runs to completion more quickly than an equivalent process with a higher nice value. The symbol {NZERO} specifies the default nice value of the system." The only expectation is that a process with a lower nice level gets more time. Any other expectation is a bug. - 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/
