On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Marco Colombo wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> [...]
> > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less
> > important.
>
> Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to
> be 'nice' to other users. I can run my *important* CPU hog
> simulation nice +10 in order to let other people get more CPU
> when the need it.
In that case the time the process has been running and the
CPU time used will save the process if it's been running for
a long time.
Please read the /entire/ algorithm before making rash
conclusions like this.
If nice is used for important, long-running tasks, the fact
that they are long-running will save them (and be honest,
would you really care if a simulation would be killed after
5 minutes? it's only inconvenient if it gets killed after
a few hours...)
> But if you put the logic "niced == not important" somewhere into
> the kernel, nobody will use nice anymore. I'd rather give a
> bonus to niced processes.
This doesn't make ANY sense at all. The objective is to destroy
the least amount of work, which means giving a bonus to processes
which have used a lot of CPU time already ... regardless of nice
value.
> all. But my point here is that you do, and you take it as an hint for
> process importance as percieved by the user that run it, and I believe
> it's just wrong guessing).
If you have a better algorithm, feel free to send patches.
regards,
Rik
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