On 30 Oct 2001, at 14:39, John R Pierce wrote: > near as I can guess, the issue here is that Prime95 is running a few > priority notches above idle and when another process tries to run at a > lower priority it will stall behind prime95. > Well - a process that keeps being preempted will tend to rise in priority & a process that keeps preempting will tend to fall (unless it's running at "real time" priority) - so that might explain it.
Reducing the timeslice would still help in the "steady state" when continuous heavy I/O is occurring, by reducing the proportion of the time the compute-intensive process has the CPU. Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
