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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:33:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Priorities?
Message-ID:  <199610251533.KAA02790@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <29337.199610251516@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk> from "Mr M P Searle" at Oct 25, 96 04:16:10 pm

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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



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