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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:42:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@ringstrom.mine.nu>
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Subject: Re: Problem with the O(1) scheduler in 2.4.19
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On 2 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> It isnt a regression, its a bug fix. The nice value is now being
> honoured properly.

The problem is that the kernel decided to nice the process (by changing
the priority, not the nice value) as if it was a background task, but it's
not a background task.  On the contrary, it's highly interactive.

/Tobias

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