[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Mark Suter]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Mark Suter <mark at zwitterion.humbug.org.au>)

On 28 Jul 1999, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com> wrote:
> : As others pointed out a nice 20 process will still use a few percent of
> : the processor even when it's busy with nice 0 tasks.  You can always
> : kill it if you need more power and restart it later.
> 
> This is interesting, as I was always under the impression that nice 20
> processes ran only when they system was otherwise idle.  Can anyone
> comment if this how it is for other unices (other than Linux that is) ?

Under Digital Unix 4.0D, the process at maximum niceness can be
starved, that is, they get CPU time only when the system is otherwise
idle.  This is a slight gotcha :-)

Yours sincerely,

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