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Operating Systems Linux Determining Values for NIce and Priority items in limits.conf file Post 302776687 by Corona688 on Wednesday 6th of March 2013 04:38:01 PM
Old 03-06-2013
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Originally Posted by DGPickett
In a more perfect world, the dispatcher would get the CPU to programs that do not hog it and that do i/o on an expedited basis.
I believe many schedulers do; I've always been impressed by how well UNIX in general timeshares, compared to Windows' nonstop stuttering. (Not even quad cores helps.) But it only works when they're equal priority... High priority will be favored over low priority regardless of how polite they are. That's what priority's for.

A runaway higher-priority process can lock lower-priority ones out quite harshly; users with the ability to raise their priority can badly affect other users. Starting them at maximum relative to each other prevents them from stalling each other.

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rtprio(1)						      General Commands Manual							 rtprio(1)

NAME
rtprio - execute process with real-time priority SYNOPSIS
priority command [arguments] priority command [arguments] DESCRIPTION
executes command with a real-time priority, or changes the real-time priority of currently executing process pid. Real-time priorities range from zero (highest) to 127 (lowest). Real-time processes are not subject to priority degradation, and are all of greater (schedul- ing) importance than non-real-time processes. See rtprio(2) for more details. If is specified instead of a real-time priority, executes command with a timeshare (non-real-time) priority, or changes the currently exe- cuting process pid from a possibly real-time priority to a timeshare priority. The former is useful to spawn a timeshare priority command from a real-time priority shell. If is not specified, command is not scheduled, or pid's real-time priority is not changed, if the user is not a member of a group having access and is not the user with appropriate privileges. When changing the real-time priority of a currently executing process, the effec- tive user ID of the calling process must be the user with appropriate privileges, or the real or effective user ID must match the real or saved user ID of the process to be modified. RETURN VALUE
returns exit status 0 if command is successfully scheduled or if pid's real-time priority is successfully changed, 1 if command is not exe- cutable or pid does not exist, and 2 if command (pid) lacks real-time capability, or the invoker's effective user ID is not a user who has appropriate privileges, or the real or effective user or the real or effective user ID does not match the real or saved user ID of the process being changed. EXAMPLES
Execute file at a real-time priority of 100: Set the currently running process pid 24217 to a real-time priority of 40: AUTHOR
was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
setprivgrp(1M), getprivgrp(2), rtprio(2). rtprio(1)
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