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To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scheduler fixups ...
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From: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Date: 02 Jan 2002 23:31:04 +0100
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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:

> a still lower ts

This also lowers the effectiveness of nice values. In 2.5.2-pre6, if I
run two cpu hogs at nice values 0 and 19 respectively, the niced task
will get approximately 20% cpu time (on x86 with HZ=100) and this
patch will give even more cpu time to the niced task. Isn't 20% too
much?

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Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
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