Hi!
> > great, I had no idea of this potential. But what I propose is scheduling the
> > network traffic (at least the outgoing traffic that we can influence directly)
> > according to the process priority, not according to the traffic type (which is
> > important but different).
>
> So you want to use a number that controls the CPU scheduling to force the network
> scheduling to go along? That's a bad idea waiting to happen.
>
Hint: he's right.
By default it is reasonable to give lower disk priority to nice -19 tasks. In some cases that
breaks, so cpu_nice, disk_nice etc. would be better.
Pavel
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