SCHED_ULE and nice still ignored

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Tom wrote:

>   From what I know of "nice", it should reduces the processes scheduling
> priority.  There is no definition in the nice manpage on the exact
> definition of reduced priority means.

"Reduced priority" is subjective.  Different schedulers are free to
more-or-less do whatever they want behind the scenes with the nice value.
The expected behavior is of course the preempting of the process that has
a higher nice value by a gradually stepped amount.

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >