[Gllug] Screen I just have to share

[Nix]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Simon Stewart uttered the following:
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:48:15AM +0100, Ms. Lene Jensen wrote:
>> nice [-n 5] screen
> 
> I was under the impression that although it's meant to be persistant,
> the nice value becomes less important the older the task is (at least

I certainly hope not!

> in one implentation of the Linux scheduler)
> 
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong....

I've never seen or heard of this behaviour, and a quick perusal of the
scheduler in 2.[024] shows no sign of anything such. Maybe dj will know
for sure.

(The *dynamic* niceness value gets nicer the more CPU time a task uses,
for sure, but that doesn't change the static niceness, it's just
affected by it.)

-- 
`There are not words enough to describe how fucked up imake is.'
                                        --- Peter da Silva


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