Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature [v2]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

       Suppose  that  there  are two autogroups competing for the same
       CPU.  The first group contains ten CPU-bound processes  from  a
       kernel build started with make -j10.  The other contains a sin‐
       gle CPU-bound process: a video player.   The  effect  of  auto‐
       grouping  is  that the two groups will each receive half of the
       CPU cycles.  That is, the video player will receive 50% of  the
       CPU  cycles,  rather  just 9% of the cycles, which would likely

                            ^^^^
                            than ?

Regards
afzal

       lead to degraded video playback.  Or to put things another way:
       an  autogroup  that  contains  a large number of CPU-bound pro‐
       cesses does not end up overwhelming the CPU at the  expense  of
       the other jobs on the system.