Re: SCHED_ULE and nice still ignored

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet (andy_at_siliconlandmark.com)
Date: 02/01/04

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:26:20 -0500 (EST)
To: Tom <tom@sdf.com>

    On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Tom wrote:

    > From what I know of "nice", it should reduces the processes scheduling
    > priority. There is no definition in the nice manpage on the exact
    > definition of reduced priority means.

    "Reduced priority" is subjective. Different schedulers are free to
    more-or-less do whatever they want behind the scenes with the nice value.
    The expected behavior is of course the preempting of the process that has
    a higher nice value by a gradually stepped amount.

    Regards,

    > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
    > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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