Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC 3/5] sched: Add CPU rate hard caps

[Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>]

Kirill Korotaev wrote:

>>"nice" seems to be doing quite nicely :-)
>>    
>>
>I'm sorry, but nice never looked "nice" to me.
>Have you ever tried to "nice" apache server which spawns 500 
>processes/threads on a loaded machine?
>With nice you _can't_ impose limits or priority on the whole "apache".
>The more apaches you have the more useless their priorites and nices are...
>  
>

Yes but interactive admin processes will still get a large bonus
relative to the apache processes so you can still log in and kill the
apache storm off even with very large loads.

Sam.
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