On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jones D (ISaCS) wrote:
> > > This probably about covers it. There may be some times when
> > > nice tasks are very important, but I can't think of any.
> > If the niced process is a simulation which has been running
> > for a week, you want to preserve it because otherwise a week
> > of work has been lost.
> > (yes, this is handled by my patch)
>
> This section of code from your patch suggests otherwise to me..
>
> + * Niced processes are probably less important; kernel/sched.c
> + * and include/linux/sched.h contain most info on scheduling.
> + */
> + if (p->priority < DEF_PRIORITY)
> + points <<= 1;
> +/*
>
>
> Or are we discussing a different patch ?
No. You forgot to read the rest ...
If a process has 1) been running long or
2) used lots of CPU time
then we'll lower its points....
regards,
Rik
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