freebsd-current

Hi, all.

I have a laptop that has 2 AMD CPUs.
I started 2 lzma compression processes with nice +10 and +20.
Then, I started to compile a port, qemu.

Back in SCHED_4BSD time, whenever I build a port while compression
was running with nice +20, build used take most of CPUs and very little
to nice +20 processes.

The build process was slow, for example, when it was running configure
where lots of processes were created.  However, when a large C file was
being compiled, it took most of CPU away from nice +20 processes.
When I suspended one of the compression, build speeds up significantly.

It looked process generation had less priorities than nice +20s.
I tested on 7.1-RELEASE and it happens there, too.
Could someone take a look?

Thanks,
Hiro


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