Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UREGINA1.BITNET!CRONEJP 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 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 30 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan P. Crone Vice President, AURA, (Amiga Users of Regina Associated.) (Regina, Sask. Canada ) (eh???) CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET ....rutgers!mimsy!uunet!mcl!cronejp come on now.... does ANYONE give a damn about what i have to say? --------------------------------------------------------------------