Hi, On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> and note that even on the old scheduler, nice-0 was "3200% more > powerful" than nice +19 (with CONFIG_HZ=300), How did you get that value? At any HZ the ratio should be around 1:10 (+- rounding error). > in fact i like it that nice -20 has a slightly bigger punch than it used > to have before: "Slightly bigger"??? You're joking, right? Especially the user levels are doing something completely different now, which may break user expectation. While the user couldn't expect anything precise, it's still a big difference whether a process at nice 5 gets 75% of the time or only 30%. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/