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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!op.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!usc!newshub.cts.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,muc.lists.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.6: Why are things getting reniced automatically ? Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 08:08:25 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32B816F9.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <594f8l$a3p@piglet.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Doug McLaren <dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32751 Doug McLaren wrote: > In any event, after a process accumulates a certain amount of cpu > time, it's reniced to 4. The value of `certain amount of cpu time' > appears to be around 20 minutes. Yep, the scheduler does that to you automatically. I don't, offhand, see an option for turning it off. :-) > (A workaround would be to renice everything to `1', of course ...) Or use rtprio(1) if you simply want to put the processes on a different scheduling queue altogether. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project