Re: About nice(1), renice(8) and ULE scheduler

2010-01-20 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
In fact nice is a very simple program. It only changes the priority value of a process in a POSIX-compliant way. There is no need to change or adapt it; it still works fine in the SMP world and with new schedulers. It's up to the scheduler to interpret and handle the priority values of

Re: About nice(1), renice(8) and ULE scheduler

2010-01-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jordi Espasa Clofent jespa...@minibofh.org wrote: I've realized that the nice(1) code hasn't been modified for a long time (last code change seems from 4 years ago according the sources). ¿Is the nice(1) behaviour the expected? I mean, ¿Has been the ULE scheduler adapted to nice(1)

About nice(1), renice(8) and ULE scheduler

2010-01-15 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
HI all, I've realized that the nice(1) code hasn't been modified for a long time (last code change seems from 4 years ago according the sources). ¿Is the nice(1) behaviour the expected? I mean, ¿Has been the ULE scheduler adapted to nice(1) command or not? nice(1) is a very old command