Re: [QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level

From: Tor Arntsen (tor@spacetec.no)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 12:24:10 EST


LA Walsh <law@sgi.com> writes:
> I was running 2 copies of setiathome on a 4 CPU server
>@ work. The two processes ran nice'd -19. The builds we were
>running still took 20-30% longer as opposed to when setiathome wasn't
>running (went from 45 minutes up to about an hour). This machine
>has 1G, so I don't think it was hurting from swapping.

It would be nice to have IRIX weightless processes on Linux..
setiathome on SGI computers don't affect anything else except
in extreme cases.

-Tor
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