Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ritcv.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ritcv!mjl From: mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Mike Lutz) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: automatic renice in 4.1 bsd? Message-ID: <1314@ritcv.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 14:19:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ritcv.1314 Posted: Sun Oct 14 14:19:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 03:38:04 EDT References: <170@terak.UUCP> <190@rlgvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 13 The problem Guy Harris mentioned about an 'automatic' renice is indeed in 4.1bsd. We got bitten by this when some users of a spreadsheet package would suddenly have their terminal locked up. Since one of them was the department head, we quickly located and fixed the kernel clock routine code. Note that the renicing fix is a temporary measure. The next time the process is running and the clock goes tick, down goes the priority again. -- Mike Lutz Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY UUCP: {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!mjl ARPA: ritcv!mjl@Rochester.ARPA