At 10:28 AM -0400 on 3/16/00, Horst von Brand wrote:
<snip>
>Note the nice(1) man page, which traditionally says something like: "Bugs:
>Nobody uses it"
>
>In any case, your VM priorities _must_ be tied to niceness, it makes no
>sense to have a high-level VM priority on a process that never gets to
>run. And, AFAIU this is what Rik's patch does on itself...
This probably about covers it. There may be some times when nice tasks
are very important, but I can't think of any.
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