On (2003/04/02 21:48), Bruce Evans wrote: > > Some of us have been waiting for that behaviour for a long time (long > > before you started working on ULE). > > Er, this is the normal behaviour in FreeBSD-3.0 through FreeBSD-4.8, > so you shouldn't have waited more than negative 4 years for it :-). > The strict implementation of this behaviour in these releases causes > priority inversion problems, but the problems apparently aren't very > important. The scaling of niceness was re-broken in -current about 3 > years ago to "fix" the priority inversion problems.
I should have realized that "a long time" would mean different things to different people, with respect to HEAD. I remember being involved in a flamefest on this issue a few years back. You were involved too. :-) However, are you sure the "nice 20 only gets unwanted CPU" behaviour is actually what you get in RELENG_4 (as opposed to your heavily patched version)? Ciao, Sheldon. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
