On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:52 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Well, it's just the default settings of the kernel which has changed. If > > you want the old behaviour, you can use (with your admin hat): > > echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/ignore_nice > > IMHO it seems quite fair, if you have a process nice'd to 10 it probably > > means you are not in a hurry. > > That's not necessarily true. Most people use 'nice' to have the cpu bound > task > not affect their foreground applications, _not_ because they don't care how > long they take.
But the scheduler should do this on its own! If people are having to renice kernel compiles to maintain decent interactive performance (and yes, I have to do the same thing sometimes) the scheduler is BROKEN, period. Lee - 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/
