From: utzoo!decvax!cca!rlb@Purdue@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  automatic niceing by kernel
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4292
Posted: Sun Nov 21 20:54:14 1982
Received: Mon Nov 22 04:47:36 1982

From: Bob Brown <rlb@Purdue>
Date: 19 Nov 1982 00:27:04-EST
We felt that the automatic renicing of processes by the kernel was
slightly bogus.  All it did was clog up the proc table with alot
of pig processes (big troff, NA stuff, simulations) and just degrade
the system as much as if they all just ran to completion.  The code
in clock.c was the first thing we yanked out of 4.1BSD.  It especially
caused problems here because we serialize troffs...if one got reniced,
the queue of batched jobs behind it would get longer and longer and longer
and eventually we were faced with overnight turnaround on troffs.

Bob Brown
Purdue-CS