On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:26:42AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the load generated by multiple SCHED_BATCH processes does not show up in
> the load average - this is the straightforward solution to not confuse
> load-average-sensitive applications such as sendmail.
I think this will confuse atd too, which is an obvious candidate
for the batch scheduler; it may end up starting all jobs which
sit in it's "batch" queue.
I think a load-average calculation scheme like this would be better:
oldload: is the load average calculated the old way
batchload: is the load average calculated only from the batch scheduler
numcpus: number of cpus...
newload(){
if (oldload > numcpus) return oldload;
if ((oldload+batchload) > numcpus) return numcpus;
return (oldload+batchload)
}
So the batch processes would show the CPUs maxed out, but would not show
up as overload in the load average. (and you could run
"atd -l <numcpus - 0.3>")
regards:
Gabor Vitez
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