From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753213AbXCMKY5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:24:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753217AbXCMKY5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:24:57 -0400 Received: from smtp14.orange.fr ([193.252.23.69]:23955 "EHLO smtp14.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753213AbXCMKY4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:24:56 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20070313102455582.8E285700009D@mwinf1408.orange.fr Subject: Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 From: Xavier Bestel To: Con Kolivas Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Mike Galbraith , Linus Torvalds , linux kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <200703132031.39370.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <200703111457.17624.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070313081805.GA22327@elte.hu> <200703132021.50712.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703132031.39370.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:24:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1173781487.9840.10.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-27) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:31 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > nice on my debian etch seems to choose nice +10 without arguments contrary to > a previous discussion that said 4 was the default. However 4 is a good value > to use as a base of sorts. I don't see why. nice uses +10 by default on all linux distro, and even on Solaris and HP/UX. So I suspect that if Mike just used "nice lame" instead of "nice +5 lame", he would have got what he wanted. Xav