Hi,
At 07:16 PM 3/13/00 -0700, Aaron Blosser wrote:
>and noticed that NTPRIME.EXE
>shows a priority of 8 (normal), but has 2 threads.
>
>I further did a 'pslist -x ntprime' and it shows that there is one thread
>running at priority 9, which I would assume is the "management" thread
>(writing save files, etc), but there is another thread running at priority 1
>which is actually the thread using all the CPU time (as indicated by the
>"user time" column).
All the higher priority thread does is "listen" for stop service and system
shutdown messages. When one of these messages arrives, it raises the
priority of the other thread so that it can finish its iteration, write its
save file, and stop.
Regards,
George
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