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From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen)
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level
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LA Walsh <law@sgi.com> writes:
>	I was running 2 copies of setiathome on a 4 CPU server
>@ work.  The two processes ran nice'd -19.  The builds we were 
>running still took 20-30% longer as opposed to when setiathome wasn't
>running (went from 45 minutes up to about an hour).  This machine
>has 1G, so I don't think it was hurting from swapping.

It would be nice to have IRIX weightless processes on Linux.. 
setiathome on SGI computers don't affect anything else except
in extreme cases.

-Tor
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