Subject: Re: Sched_autogroup and niced processes
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Carl-Johan Kjellander <carl-johan@klarna.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:06:23 +0200
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On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 15:36 +0200, Carl-Johan Kjellander wrote:

> I can try the same thing at home on my Q6600 machine if I upgrade it,
> cause of course the Core i7 doesn't actually have 8 cores, they are
> just hyperthreaded. It might be a factor.
> 
> Or am doing something horribly wrong when I try to set the autogroup to 19?

You seemingly haven't niced the parent's group, else new clients would
behave themselves.

cat /proc/pid/NN/autogroup will show nice level for group of pid NN.

(Watch out you don't nice down something like kdeinit;)

	-Mike

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