>>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.
I figured it handled that, as well as writing save files and that sort of
thing. Maybe you should let the FBI know. :-)
Aaron
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