On Apr 21, 2006, at 9:32 AM, John Sheu wrote:
As you can see, a CPU-bound process immediately tries to eat up as much CPU time as it can get. Niceness just regulates how important we rate this process. And please, stop pulling phrases like "kernel scheduling" out without fulling understanding the context.
Correct. Also, interactive processes and pre-emption go quite a ways into screwing up 'nice'. Niceness is a suggestion, not a rule. The scheduler always wins the argument. If you want to tweak the scheduler, you can do that by recompiling your kernel, but only in a few ways that will really matter (such as changing the HZ value or turning preemption on/off.) -- Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
