On 19/11/10 18:48, Konstantin Svist wrote:
This fix only affects TTYs (i.e. terminal sessions). For instance,
if
you're watching a video and compiling something in a terminal, this fix
will make sure that the terminal as a whole (no matter how many
background processes it starts) shares time fairly with your video player.
In other words, if you don't have a single terminal open, you shouldn't
see any change at all.
True. I may be wrong but it's my understanding that the original
200-line kernel patch is smarter in that it automagically moves
processes between cgroups according to their real behaviour rather than
how they were started.
poc