> Is it possible that the inter-cpu balancing is broken in 2.5.2-pre11?
>
> eatcpu is a simple cpu hog ("for(;;);"). Dual CPU i386.
>
> $nice -19 ./eatcpu&;
> <wait>
> $nice -19 ./eatcpu&;
> <wait>
> $./eatcpu&.
>
> IMHO it should be
> * both niced process run on one cpu.
> * the non-niced process runs with a 100% timeslice.
>
> But it's the other way around:
> One niced process runs with 100%. The non-niced process with 50%, and
> the second niced process with 50%.
This could be fixed by making "nr_running" closer to a "priority sum".
Ingo?
Rusty.
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