On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > > On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the > > CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when > > CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say "assign this > > process only xy% of CPU resources". > Linux's ``conservative'' scaling governor ignores nice'd processes for > calculating the desired CPU speed. Do you have a case in mind where CPU > scaling is insufficient? CPU scaling TTBOMK * doesn't work for all CPUs; * is more complex than a single binary; * works on the CPU as a whole and not on single processes. IMO tuning the frequency of the CPU is something different than adjusting the CPU usage of a process. gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `-
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