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Value range

Posted May 6, 2005 23:48 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Value range by phiggins
Parent article: Audio latency - resource limits win

You're both right. The name should be RLIMIT_MEAN. A limit on how mean you can be.

I don't know anything about the early history of nice, but I suspect the negative values were an add-on. I think someone setting out to design a general CPU share setting wouldn't do it that way.


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