Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

Dhaval Giani dhaval.giani at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 13:05:49 UTC 2008


On 1/21/08, Frank S. Thomas <fst at debian.org> wrote:
> Just for the record, this bug originated from
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177713, which has
> some additonal information regarding this report.
>

Correct. This is not a boinc bug. This is due to the changed behaviour
of the linux scheduler. The correct fix would either be to use
CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED which will give the user the option to use
group scheduling, or using uevent scripts to set the user's share by
default.

Thanks
Dhaval





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