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Date:      Mon, 03 Mar 1997 22:34:25 -0600
From:      Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@risc.org>
Cc:        Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2 Compiler slower than 2.1? (was RSA 56-bit key challenge) 
Message-ID:  <199703040434.WAA01099@nyx.pr.mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 03 Mar 1997 23:01:53 -0500. <Pine.BSF.3.95.970303230052.16666B-100000@alpha.risc.org> 

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>On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:
>> 
>> Unfortunatly I probably will not be able to leave the code running
>> for a long period of time, but I wanted to be at the top for a few
>> hours anyway :)
>
>    What is the machine normally used for?  If it is allowable,
>setting up a cron job to start a bunch of clients after work hours and
>killing it before the day starts again would still be a great help.

No, no, no.  What you want to do is to start the client on the idle queue...
then you can utilize every last unused cycle. :)  I think that the idle procs
are also on that queue, so it might not be such a good idea for FreeBSD-SMP
right now.

man idprio

-Chris Csanady


>--
>Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
>"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
>






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