Re: Schedule idle

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Mon, 9 Nov 1998 06:51:24 -0700 (MST)


>
> On Nov 08, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
>
> > Spell out what "important RT" means precisely and you will be in a position
> > to make your code work. If you want a completely preemptable kernel, you
> > have your work cut out for you. God alone knows what it means for a
> > high priority RT task to "use the FS".
>
> my original feature request (which was solved for us by Ingo's SCHED_IDLE)
> was to run background jobs (esp. `rc5' that time) which shall _not_
> (or only very minimally) compete with other running tasks, even with
> nive-19 tasks (because we're using NQS/LSF style batch jobs which are

Why can't you run those tasks at nice 18?

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Inspiring policy.

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