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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:26:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Kristian <kristian.peters@korseby.net>
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Subject: Re: New scheduler in 2.4. series?
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Kristian wrote:

> Of course. But with the good old scheduler I've never had any
> problems. The system was very slow but continuously responsive. [...]

true, the old scheduler did not do much with the nice level. In the new
scheduler there is some real difference between nice levels - and this is
a feature. I'd suggest for you to try something like nice -5. What kind of
application are you renicing?

	Ingo

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