Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:54:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Re: Priorities? Message-ID: <199610251954.VAA09631@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610251533.KAA02790@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Oct 25, 96 10:33:58 am"
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As John S. Dyson wrote: > 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. Addendum (since the original question included this): `idleprio' processes are being scheduled only if absolutely no other processes are runnable, and the system would otherwise enter the idle loop. Thus, they are good e.g. for X11 screen savers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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