From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FRvWd-0006qk-3l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:17:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k37IGdxk025555; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:16:39 GMT Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.200.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k37IBShn002571 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:11:29 GMT Received: from scarlatti.leonora.org (c-71-198-186-84.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.198.186.84]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <2006040718112601100f842je>; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:11:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10604050949i56e1b71cu14c9d644a33df91@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10604041713r52c33c7dx9379882400ba7544@mail.gmail.com> <1144198585.13378.1.camel@orpheus> <44331ADF.9010002@cisco.com> <1144201870.13375.11.camel@orpheus> <1144231652.24199.3.camel@localhost> <1144232560.24199.13.camel@localhost> <49bf44f10604050949i56e1b71cu14c9d644a33df91@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:09:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1144433360.6145.6.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 43d10604-2976-46e1-86fc-3c4def995029 X-Archives-Hash: 9d2b0d2ae209984a156dd02c81e16b31 Con Kolivas's kernel http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ or emerge ck-sources use Kolivas' toolsched (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/toolsched/) so that background jobs only run when no other task wants to run. toolsched uses sys-process/schedtool to control the scheduling of processes. --- Vladimir On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:49 -0700, Grant wrote: > > BTW, is there a plan to use the new SCHED_BATCH scheduling policy > > introduced in the last (2.6.16) kernel ? (see > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b0a9499c3dd50d333e2aedb7e894873c58da3785 ) Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list