> > I am coding a daemon which i want to activate when the system is idle. > > ... > > * make the daemon a low priority > >current > scheduler still schedules this job quite often even during > something CPU intensive like a make -j. Ingo's O(1) scheduler > has now changed this so that these jobs get an even smaller We are working on 2.4.16, but thanks anyway. We will try both the background approach as well as the task_queue approach. Swapnil. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
