> Setting this to eg. 100 should make the process less prone to switching CPU.
> 
> Tell us how it works for you. It seemed to work for me.  If this works for a lot of
> people, one could add some lines in the file to make kernels configured for PPro/PIIs
> run with a higher penalty value.
> 
> I submitted such a patch to Linus some time ago, but I guess it got lost 
>somewhere...  :)

Its actually very tricky to tune since it really depends on the machine 
and process properties. The current algorithm is probably too simplistic
but it worked on my dual P90 ;)

Alan

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