Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature [v2]

From: Afzal Mohammed
Date: Fri Nov 25 2016 - 07:55:56 EST


Hi,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> Suppose that there are two autogroups competing for the same
> CPU. The first group contains ten CPU-bound processes from a
> kernel build started with make -j10. The other contains a sinâ
> gle CPU-bound process: a video player. The effect of autoâ
> grouping is that the two groups will each receive half of the
> CPU cycles. That is, the video player will receive 50% of the
> CPU cycles, rather just 9% of the cycles, which would likely
^^^^
than ?

Regards
afzal

> lead to degraded video playback. Or to put things another way:
> an autogroup that contains a large number of CPU-bound proâ
> cesses does not end up overwhelming the CPU at the expense of
> the other jobs on the system.