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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote:

> You don't really understand the scheduling. Nice the xgalaga to 0 or -1,
> and try again. Plus, rc5des is running on BOTH CPU's (FreeBSD splits it of
> course and switches them around to have the best performance), FreeBSD is
> not "magic".
> 
> Brian Feldman

  Yes, and rc5des should probably be run under idprio.  No matter how much
you "nice" a process it will still be run, even if other processes are
waiting.  Howerver, a idprio process only runs when idle.  A idprio
process may never run at all if your system never has idle time.

Tom


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