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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:06:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:

> In other words:  Any nice-0 task that has been sleeping for two seconds
> or more will be able to monololize the CPU for up to 0.7 seconds.  Do
> you agree that this is a problem, or am I being too narrow-minded?  :-)

well, 'monopolize' the CPU from CPU-hogs - yes. Take the CPU from other
interactive tasks: no.

	Ingo

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