doelz@urz.unibas.ch (08/22/90)
In article <9008211446.AA13953@chaos.ocean.fsu.edu>, steve@CHAOS.OCEAN.FSU.EDU (Steve Van Gorder) writes: .. > > Another thing that seems to help somewhat is to use npri to set the nice value > of the news_ser all the way to 0. This seems to keep the window manager from > being paged out quite so easily and works a little better than assigning it > a non-degrading priority, I suppose since the highest available non- > degrading priority is 30 whereas as news_ser normaly has a priority of 26. > The file /usr/include/sys/schedctl.h defines the ranges as follows: /* possible non-degrading priorities */ /* these priorities are higher than ALL normal user process priorities */ #define NDPHIMAX 30 #define NDPHIMIN 39 /* these priorities overlap normal user process priorities */ #define NDPNORMMAX 40 #define NDPNORMMIN 127 /* these priorities are below ALL normal user process priorities */ #define NDPLOMAX 128 #define NDPLOMIN 254 Back in 3.1 (or even 3.0 ? ), I remember that news_ser was set to non-ageing 64 (or a similar value), and there have been reasons to change that. If your machine is heavily loaded, you could play with the npri in order to speed up news_ser. Good luck, Reinhard