Subject: Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature [v2]
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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:04:12 +0100
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On 11/25/2016 01:52 PM, Afzal Mohammed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> 
>>        Suppose  that  there  are two autogroups competing for the same
>>        CPU.  The first group contains ten CPU-bound processes  from  a
>>        kernel build started with make -j10.  The other contains a sin‐
>>        gle CPU-bound process: a video player.   The  effect  of  auto‐
>>        grouping  is  that the two groups will each receive half of the
>>        CPU cycles.  That is, the video player will receive 50% of  the
>>        CPU  cycles,  rather  just 9% of the cycles, which would likely
>                             ^^^^
>                             than ?
> 
> Regards
> afzal

Thanks, Afzal. Fixed!

Cheers,

Michael

> 
>>        lead to degraded video playback.  Or to put things another way:
>>        an  autogroup  that  contains  a large number of CPU-bound pro‐
>>        cesses does not end up overwhelming the CPU at the  expense  of
>>        the other jobs on the system.
> 


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