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From: "Steffen Merkel" <d_f0rce@gmx.de>
To: "Kip Macy" <kip@lyris.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel threads
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:47:06 +0100
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Hello,

From: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>
To: Richard Seaman, Jr. <dick@tar.com>

> They may be preemptive, but I saw a lot of instances with Lyris where one
> thread could easily monopolize processor time at the expense of all
> others and I had to add sleeps in at places.

Does this mean I've got to add sleeps in my threads to let other threads get
cpu time? Is there no other possibility?

Steffen




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