linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22.2-cfs-v19.1 stops honouring nice 3 after some hours

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Message-Id: <1187286737.6114.100.camel@twins>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:52:17 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Michael Gerdau <mgd@...hnosis.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22.2-cfs-v19.1 stops honouring nice 3 after some hours

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:23 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> I played a bit with renicing my (mostly) CPU bound jobs and found
> somewhat strange behaviour.
> 
> I'm on 2.6.22.2-cfs-v19.1 -- I can't boot into 2.6.23-rc3 as part of
> my daily work because my NVIDIA driver doesn't yet work with it though
> I could try to do some X-less testing if need be.

Please do try, a lot has changed since v19.1.

FWIW the nv driver lets one do most desktop-ish things without problems,
or so I've been told - just no 3d.

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