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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:25:56 +1100 (EST)
From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To: Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: idprio
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Volker Stolz wrote:

> Under FreeBSD system calls are currently never preempted, therefore non-
>      realtime processes can starve realtime processes, or idletime processes
>      can starve normal priority processes.

Even so an idprio process can't be worse than a normal process.

Andrew


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