cfraser wrote: > I usually don't quote, but I wanted this one so that people who have > even a beginning level of computer and/or networking experience know who > to ignore. You aren't even a newbie yet, child from the hills, or you'd > watch your mouth. Some day you might want a job that doesn't require a > broom or mop, so again some clue + manners might help you graduate to a > shovel if prospective employers don't check you out on the web. I don't > have to care about that anymore so can say whatever they let me get away > with. :)
Actually, it's not all that clear to me that what you're saying makes any sense, or that you know what you're talking about, either. Even if you have a bunch of threads running, depending on the types of locks they're using underneath (spinlocks or some kind of sleep locks), if threads are waiting on locks, their mere existence may or may not produce any constant load. So screwing around with thread priorities may or may not have much effect: and you have to remember that setting thread priorities is only a suggestion in any event: the os thread scheduler is going to eventually get to all of them. The whole thing is a fairly complex dynamic system, and these explanations really sound like somewhat optimistic guesses at what is happening. Is it the case that someone here has actually measured the electricity consumption of the unit over time with these tweaks in place (perhaps John Swenson?)? If not, in the absence of either hard evidence or some blind testing or _something_ that can't be written off as pure placebo, it escapes me why anyone would take this any more seriously than homeopathy. If this has been done, then I stand corrected, but I haven't seen any mention of such tests. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94912 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
