ULE nice behavior fixed.

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:24, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> It probably still needs some tweaking but it seems to be MUCH better now.
> New algorithm entirely.
>
> nice +20 processes will not run if anything else wants to.
>
> idleprio is still not working correctly.  bde reports that this causes a
> 3% perf degradation for buildworld.

Isn't nice +20 == idle prio then?

My understanding was that idle prio didn't run unless nothing else wanted the 
CPU which is what you describe nice +20 as doing :)

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