linux-kernel - Re: is RSDL an "unfair" scheduler too?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703191027480.7769@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:30:28 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Lang <david.lang@...italinsight.com>
To:	Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@...il.com>
cc:	davids@...master.com,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is RSDL an "unfair" scheduler too?

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:

>
>> Consider two servers,
> ^ ^ ^
>
> Well, aren't we discussing desktops?
> Server admins can fine-tune the rights and CPU quotas per group.
>

how many multi-user desktops are there? most desktops that I have seen run just 
about everything as a single user. I know that on mine, I don't want the 
updatedb process that runs as 'nobody' out of cron to have the same percentage 
of cpu as all the processes running as my userid.

David Lang
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