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From: CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Process priorities and clock accuracy
Message-ID: <8806260749.AA10296@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 88 07:42:02 GMT
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The reason that i called the guy that wrote RSLclock a twit
about the priority 20 thing (it REALLY is a nice thingy otherwise)
is that almost all AmigaDog or Intuition tasks run at
priorities 5 and 10.... (as in stuff like CON, trackdisk.device,
at 5. the File system at 10, and the input.device at 20)
now unless my understanding of priorities of a multitasking o/s like
amy's is COMPLETELY screwed up, that means that our handy little
clock program can grab cycles more often than important system tasks.
this can lead to crashes when the system is running under a big load...
right???? (well it SEEMED to be leading to crashes for me.... (Ray tracer
at low priority, Lattice C, and term program, and editor  around 1 )
as soon as RSL clock was run at a priority of -1 things seemed to
be much happier around Crone Amiga systems....
(and i didn't loose that much resolution on the clock... it seems to update
around every 2 seconds or so...)


JpC


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Jonathan P. Crone
Vice President, AURA,  (Amiga Users of Regina Associated.)
(Regina, Sask. Canada )    (eh???)

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come on now....  does ANYONE give a damn about what i have to say?
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