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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to speed up uucp with Telebits(only getting 800 chars/sec )
Keywords: news rnews nice unbatch
Message-ID: <4979@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 13 Jul 89 12:44:54 GMT
References: <200038@hrc.UUCP> <3175@csccat.UUCP> <240@sopwith.UUCP> <817@omen.UUCP>
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Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <817@omen.UUCP>, caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
> The problem with nice'ing rnews is its disk intensive
> operation.  Nice'ing rnews doesn't make it all that nice :-)

Yeah, I have noticed this too.  If one's system is mostly disk-bound, nicing
does not have a substantial effect, at least under Sys V/3.

I think what is needed is a nicer-than-nice nice where really low priority
tasks do not always get to execute or get their disk requests fulfilled, even 
when there are no other run-ready tasks.
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