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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler
    On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:12:02PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote:
    > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
    > [...]
    > > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less
    > > important.
    >
    > Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to be
    > 'nice' to other users. I can run my *important* CPU hog simulation
    > nice +10 in order to let other people get more CPU when the need it.
    > But if you put the logic "niced == not important" somewhere into the
    > kernel, nobody will use nice anymore. I'd rather give a bonus to niced
    > processes.

    I could not agree more. Normally, you'd better kill a foreground task
    (running nice 0) than selecting one of those background jobs for some
    reasons:
    * The foreground job can be restarted by the interactive user
    (Most likely, it will be only netscape anyway)
    * The background job probably is the more useful one which has been running
    since a longer time (computations, ...)
    * If we put any policy like this into the kernel at all, I'd rather
    encourage the usage of nice instead of discouraging it.

    I assume here backgrd job == niced job, which mostly is the case in reality.

    Regards,
    --
    Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Eindhoven, NL
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