SCHED_ULE should not be the default

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sat Dec 10 01:10:53 UTC 2011


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:03 AM, George Mitchell <george+freebsd at m5p.com> wrote:
> dnetc is an open-source program from http://www.distributed.net/.  It
> tries a brute-force approach to cracking RC4 puzzles and also computes
> optimal Golomb rulers.  It starts up one process per CPU and runs at
> nice 20 and is, for all intents and purposes, 100% compute bound.

Try idprio as well (atm it requires root to use though).

nice only means "play nice". idprio means "only run when nothing else
wants to run".

-- 
Eitan Adler


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