On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:33:48AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > I think the existence of rtprio and a non-broken idprio makes infinite > deprioritization using niceness unnecessary. (idprio is still broken > (not available to users) in -current, but it doesn't need to be if > priority propagation is working as it should be.) It's safer and fairer > for all niced processes to not completely prevent each other being > scheduled, and use the special scheduling classes for cases where this > is not wanted. I'd mainly like the slices for nice -20 vs nice --20 > processes to be very small and/or infrequent.
I agree. With idprio, there is no need for a special nice value that is handled outside the normal rules of "nice". I always thought that a wart after using Irix which has a working idprio. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
