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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:47:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP: binding process to CPU
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971129154536.14983E-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971129230021.25950A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>

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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> Here's why I'm asking: I have one process which must be as near real-time
> as possible, and the second process processes it's output (which is

  Use rtprio on that process.  If the priority is high enough, the process
will pretty much hog a CPU.  This can be dangerous, as other processes
may not run at all, but on SMP there is at least one more CPU for other
processes to run on.

Tom



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