On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> OK, here it is. It's nothing like montavista's singing-dancing
> scheduler patch that does all, just a really minimal change that
> should stretch the nice levels to yield the following CPU usage:
>
> Nice 0 5 10 15 19
> %CPU 100 56 25 6 1
PID USER PRI NI SIZE SWAP RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
980 riel 17 0 296 0 296 240 R 54.1 0.5 54:19 loop
1005 riel 16 5 296 0 296 240 R N 27.0 0.5 0:34 loop
1006 riel 17 10 296 0 296 240 R N 13.5 0.5 0:16 loop
1007 riel 18 15 296 0 296 240 R N 4.5 0.5 0:05 loop
987 riel 20 19 296 0 296 240 R N 0.4 0.5 0:25 loop
... is what I got when testing it here. It seems that nice levels
REALLY mean something with the patch applied ;)
You can get it at http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.3ac4-largenice
Since there seems to be quite a bit of demand for this feature,
please test it and try to make it break. If it doesn't break we
can try to put it in the kernel...
regards,
Rik
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