Thanks to Samanth Lingampalli <samanthl@stanford.edu> and Haobo Xu
<haoboxu@stanford.edu> for input.
Every thread has a @var{nice} value between -20 and 20 directly under
its control. Each thread also has a priority, between 0
(@code{PRI_MIN}) through 63 (@code{PRI_MAX}), which is recalculated
-using the following formula whenever the value of either variable term
-changes:
+using the following formula every fourth tick:
@center @t{@var{priority} = @code{PRI_MAX} - (@var{recent_cpu} / 4) - (@var{nice} * 2)}.