Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle

Anthony DeRobertis (asd@suespammers.org)
Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:31:17 -0500


On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 11:39 , Robert Love wrote:

> What do you think will happen when an "idle" task holds a
> resource or is
> otherwise a producer for something a higher priority, running, task
> needs?

One of two things:
1) The higher priority task will no longer be runnable; or
2) We gave enough rope to hang yourself, and, well, you did.

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