On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:53:45PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> I wonder if the prioritisation could be done using nice - each backend is
> a separate process, so why not to do 'nice(10)' for low priority processes
> or something like that.
This won't work because if you are holding a lock on something someone
else needs, your low nice score is going to cause them problems. It
could make things worse rather than better. (This suggestion comes up
a lot, by the way, so there's been a lot of discussion of it
historically.)
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