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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:31:07 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Pathological case identified from contest
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Con Kolivas wrote:

> The rest of the results were otherwise similar. It seems your patch
> served to disadvantage kernel compilation in preference for more of the
> background load.

Probably a priority inheritance thing between parent and child
processes, this should be easily fixable to be fairer (if it
isn't already fairest with Jim's patch).

Rik
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