I see, why do we need to have the highest priority possible for the loop device? and why does -20 just work fine for normal kernels? cheers, greg At 18:01 2002. 10. 14., you wrote: >Newsmail wrote: > > Hi Jari, I saw that you changed the default nice value for the loop device > > when the kernel is using mingo's sched. If I remember that value was -9. > > Did you choose '-9' as a + - arbitrary value under 0, but over -20, or it > > has some special reason to be -9 and not -5 for exemple? > >I read Ingo's O(1) scheduler comments from kernel source. Process' nice is >dynamically adjusted -5...+5 based on how it has behaved in past. So, I >first tested with nice -5. Interactivity was OK with that. I kept increasing >priority until bad interactivity appeared at nice -10, so I chose -9. >Temporary bad interactivity still appeared at -9, but at -10 it was >sustained bad interactivity. > >Regards, >Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
