Re: Does task scheduler work correctly? (... nice bug fix)

2001-02-04 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Cejka Rudolf wrote: Sheldon Hearn wrote (2001/02/01): What I remember of the discussions that surrounded this one, your summary is correct. The only thing is that nice isn't so much _broken_ as it just isn't doing what you'd expect it to. :-) Ok, scheduler in

Re: Does task scheduler work correctly? (... nice bug fix)

2001-02-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 19:23:04 +0100, Cejka Rudolf wrote: After reading commit logs, I understand that: * Scheduling in -current should not cause locks, but nice is again broken. * Scheduling in -stable can cause locks (?!?), but nice works perfectly. I could not believe that my

Re: Does task scheduler work correctly? (... nice bug fix)

2001-02-01 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Sheldon Hearn wrote (2001/02/01): What I remember of the discussions that surrounded this one, your summary is correct. The only thing is that nice isn't so much _broken_ as it just isn't doing what you'd expect it to. :-) Ok, scheduler in -current is not broken. But I'm afraid that in

Re: Does task scheduler work correctly? (... nice bug fix)

2001-02-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 20:14:13 +0100, Cejka Rudolf wrote: Ok, scheduler in -current is not broken. But I'm afraid that in -stable it is - can (niced) process cause a lock of machine?. You should really talk to Brian Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The last time I chatted to him about this, I was