On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:33:23PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Okay -- you're really quite the ASCII artist. And somehow, > I think you needed to compose the mail in LaTeX. But thanks > for the detail. It's helpful, for me at least. Hehe, its been a while since I did LaTeX, so I'd probably make a mess of it :-) Glad my ramblings made sense. > > Note that this property, where the weight of the server entity is > > independent from its child entities is a desired feature. Without that > > it would be impossible to control the relative weights of groups, and > > that is the sole parameter of the WFQ model. > > > > It is also why Linus so likes autogroups, each session competes equally > > amongst one another. > > I get it. But, the behavior changes for the process nice value are > undocumented, and they should be documented. I understand > what the behavior change was. But not yet when. Well, its all undocumented -- I suppose you're about to go fix that :-) But think of it differently, think of the group as a container, then the behaviour inside the container is exactly as expected. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
