Re: Overscheduling DOES happen with high web server load.

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Sat, 8 May 1999 20:29:15 +0200


Hi!

> this can be achieved by increasing (or changing) the scale of priorities.
> (this can be done seemlessly) But i doubt this matters in most cases.
> (except when there are _lots_ of niced 100%-CPU using processes running)

nice -20 tasks likes to eat 8% or so of cpu time, even when there are
non-niced processes runnable (I just did quick measure). Some people
think this is way too much.

Pavel

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