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From: ach@pucc-h (Stephen Uitti)
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Subject: Re: Load control and intelligence in schedulers
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 18:24:27 EDT
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	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