From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:55:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:55:02 -0500 Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]:42372 "EHLO mailout04.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:54:45 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Thomas Koeller To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Scheduling of low-priority background processes Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:53:38 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01110521533900.00641@sarkovy.koeller.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear kernel wizards, first of all, I wish to apologize in case I am asking a questions that has already been discussed much on this list. I am not a subscriber (so please CC. me if you respond to this mail) and by browsing the list archive I did not immediatly find any discussion about my topic. So here is my question: Some operating systems I have been working with had a scheduling policy different from what I find in Linux.