linux-kernel - Re: Scheduler fails to allow for "niceness" with new/fast processes

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Message-ID: <20090616155034.0bb7decd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:50:34 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scheduler fails to allow for "niceness" with new/fast processes

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
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