In article <199601170347.WAA26255@repeat.pci.on.ca>,
David Gilbert  <pci!jaywon!dgilbert@life.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
> [ about the autonice 'feature' ]
> 
> >>>>> "matthew" == matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> matthew> i agree.  i totally hate it.
> 
> 	So... why don't we make this a kernel 'option' if there's
> anyone who actually wants the feature.
> 
> option AUTORENICE=10 # (minutes)

Why not a sysctl? Let the default value be 600, and if you don't want
it, set it to an extremely high value.  Or better, have the sysctl
get/set code for that variable make a set of 0 mean ULONG_MAX, and read
ULONG_MAX as 0.  I don't see a good reason why this would have to be a
compile-time option, so better to make it run-time settable.