SCHED_ULE and nice still ignored

[Tom]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

...
> If I start a process with nice 15 (like seti) it shouldn't slow down my
> machine by exponetial factors.
> It should take cycles which are almost unused and not block regular processes
> (like make)
...

  Isn't "idprio" the best way of scheduling a process to run when the
system is otherwise idle?  Can you try with idprio?

  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.

Tom