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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 08:56:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Andrew Rodland wrote:

>...
> Very nearly off topic, but I've had a few people on IRC tell me that
> they love O(1) specifically because it has a 'nice that actually does
> something'. As a matter of fact, I've had to change my X startup
> scripts, to make it a bit less selfish; the defaults are just plain
> silly, now.
>...

This is exactly a reason why O(1) shouldn't go into 2.4:

E.g. my X is as suggested by my the installation routine of my
distribution (Debian unstable/testing) niced to -10. It would be a bad
surprise for _many_ people if they upgrade their 2.4 kernel because of
other security and/or stability fixes and such a setting is then wrong.


cu
Adrian

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