On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 06:24:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> the patch below fixes George's setiathome problems (as expected). It
> essentially turns off Linus' improvement, but i dont think it can be fixed
> sanely.
>
> the problem with setiathome is that it displays something every now and
> then - so it gets a backboost from X, and hovers at a relatively high
> priority.
Why are niced processes boosted? Does that make sense?
If only non-niced processes were boosted, wouldn't that pretty much fix
the problem?
Cheers,
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