> hmm, maybe my mail wasn't clear enough. I'll try to explain the real aim again:
>
> I'd like to have a processes doing real and reasonable computations
> only and really only if nothing else is running on the system.
> it should not even try to compete with jobs running with "nice 19".
> this is what I'm calling my "idle task".
Or to put it another way: a new scheduling class so you have real time,
general purpose and idle (or just plain lazy) tasks, scheduled in
that order.
Mike
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