From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scheduler fails to allow for "niceness" with new/fast processes
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:50:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090616155034.0bb7decd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <deaa866a0906160723k78c3c54bv35e2e2406e3d13d1@mail.gmail.com>
There are lots of patterns of activity where the bottleneck will be I/O
rather than CPU, and nice is basically about CPU priority. Package
building does tend to do a lot of disk writing so its not entirely
unexpected
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-16 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-16 14:23 Robert Bradbury
2009-06-16 14:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-06-16 14:50 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-06-17 8:02 ` Mike Galbraith
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