Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:57:42 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Priorities? Message-ID: <199610251857.LAA08622@root.com>
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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. Also, idprio and rtprio are escentially opposites. idprio processes only run if nothing else is runnable. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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