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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Priorities?
To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:33:58 -0500 (EST)
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The rtprio priorities are "hard" and processes running at rtprio
are not swapped and always run before normal processes.  "Nice"
priorities only bias the scheduler.

I sometimes play with audio processing, and find that when running
X that the system doesn't give enough CPU to processes when moving
windows around, etc.  Setting the audio processing process with rtprio
makes the problems totally go away.

John