Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:16:17 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Some questions about linux kernel. |
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, DeRobertis wrote: > At 10:28 AM -0400 on 3/16/00, Horst von Brand wrote: > > >In any case, your VM priorities _must_ be tied to niceness, it makes no > >sense to have a high-level VM priority on a process that never gets to > >run. And, AFAIU this is what Rik's patch does on itself... > > This probably about covers it. There may be some times when nice tasks > are very important, but I can't think of any.
If the niced process is a simulation which has been running for a week, you want to preserve it because otherwise a week of work has been lost.
(yes, this is handled by my patch)
cheers,
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