On 11/25/2016 01:52 PM, Afzal Mohammed wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> Suppose that there are two autogroups competing for the same >> CPU. The first group contains ten CPU-bound processes from a >> kernel build started with make -j10. The other contains a sin‐ >> gle CPU-bound process: a video player. The effect of auto‐ >> grouping is that the two groups will each receive half of the >> CPU cycles. That is, the video player will receive 50% of the >> CPU cycles, rather just 9% of the cycles, which would likely > ^^^^ > than ? > > Regards > afzal
Thanks, Afzal. Fixed! Cheers, Michael > >> lead to degraded video playback. Or to put things another way: >> an autogroup that contains a large number of CPU-bound pro‐ >> cesses does not end up overwhelming the CPU at the expense of >> the other jobs on the system. > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
