Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:28:20 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | RE: Some questions about linux kernel. |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jones D (ISaCS) wrote:
> > > 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) > > This section of code from your patch suggests otherwise to me.. > > + * Niced processes are probably less important; kernel/sched.c > + * and include/linux/sched.h contain most info on scheduling. > + */ > + if (p->priority < DEF_PRIORITY) > + points <<= 1; > +/* > > > Or are we discussing a different patch ?
No. You forgot to read the rest ...
If a process has 1) been running long or 2) used lots of CPU time
then we'll lower its points....
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