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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Organization: Organization? very little
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44
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On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>> yeah, i guess this has little to do with X. I think in your scenario
>> it might have been smarter to either stop, or to renice the workloads
>> that took away CPU power from others to _positive_ nice levels.
>> Negative nice levels can indeed be dangerous.
>
>btw., was X itself at nice 0 or nice -10 when the lockup happened?
>
>	Ingo

Memory could be fuzzy Ingo, but I think it was at 0 at the time.

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