Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:ach From: ach@pucc-h (Stephen Uitti) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Load control and intelligence in schedulers Message-ID: <1366@pucc-h> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 18:24:27 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1366 Posted: Thu Oct 18 18:24:27 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 13:30:15 EDT References: <151@desint.UUCP> <4451@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 9 A side note to giving priority to processes that do terminal I/O. Many systems reset your priority to Max after a sleep. I've seen programs that first check to see if the load is high, and if so, every 30 seconds or so will sleep for a second. The result is that you sleep (you probably wouldn't have run then anyway) then run at higher priority. You'd be amazed sometimes how much real time improvement there is. Steve Uitti