Re: SCHED_ULE and nice still ignored

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:26:20 -0500 (EST)
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/    >
Received on Sat Jan 31 2004 - 14:26:23 UTC

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