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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Brian Anderson <bunicula@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: unix games... Re: ??? 
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:20:29 EST, Brian Anderson wrote:

> There are an increasing number of Linux games out there... QIII, Unreal
> Tournament, Civ: Call to Power.
> 
> Perhaps they'll all run under FreeBSD too?

The point is that FreeBSD's scheduler isn't optimized for games, which
are massive resource hungry hogs.  Our scheduler is optimized for many
processes, some long-running and some short-lived cpu-bound hogs.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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