On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:00 AM, Jeremy W. Sherman wrote:
How about just nice(1)-ing the process doing the intense processing to be
lower-priority, and letting the scheduler sort it all out?

It's my understanding that nice() prioritization is effectively meaningless on Darwin, at least according to several open-source projects who specifically don't bother with nice()-ing when __APPLE__ is defined. Was the scheduler changed to make this untrue in 10.5?

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