On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: > I was going to say that niceness didn't affect what I was doing, but > I've just rerun it [ in 2.6.11.9 ] and I see that tar and bzip2 show up > with a niceness of 10. I'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth here
OK, Con was right, and I didn't initially make the connection. In 2.6.11, untarring a .tar.bz2 causes tar and bzip2 to run with a niceness of 10, but everything is fine. In 2.6.12, ondemand _only_ has an effect for me in this example if I put on my admin hat and renice the bzip2 process (tried 0, that works) - renicing the tar process has no effect (obviously, that part doesn't push the processor). So, from a user's point of view it's broken. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - 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/
