Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> true, the old scheduler did not do much with the nice level. In the new
> scheduler there is some real difference between nice levels - and this is
> a feature. I'd suggest for you to try something like nice -5. What kind of
> application are you renicing?
Just multiple 'nice -n -20 tar -cvjf` in a row for "high priority backup when my DTLA drives makes wierd noises again". I'm just compiling -K2. (BTW: -J2 behaves really bad while moving windows during a kernel compilation.)
*Kristian
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