> Well increasing the goodness will no doubt make the current process
> snappier.
No, it will make a non-niced process snappier when it's timeslice
isn't exhausted yet. This gives a huge advantage to modplayers,
mp3 players and other multimedia stuff that never uses it's
timeslice completely.
> But it is still a little far from making an effectivly round robin
> scheduler into a multi-level feedback scheduler with multiple queues.
It wasn't meant as such. It's just a quick hack while we're
waiting for a real scheduler replacement :-)
Rik.
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