Our thread priorities on Mozilla are all normal. We are not upping thr
priorities at all.

Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

> Had an audio stream (started as a Mozilla helper application)
> playing in the background, while I did a little web surfing.
> Did not measure how much load that audio stream put on my system,
> but I'm convinced it was *substantially* less than 50% of the
> system's processing capacity.
>
> Now, several times while Mozilla was rendering webpages that
> had a lot on them, the audio stream "dropped out".  [Looked to
> me like lack of processing power.  Haven't previously noticed
> whether contention_to_use_the_communications_line can "freeze
> out" any of the contenders.]  To my mind, there were __only__
> two "foreground tasks" active - the audio stream and Mozilla.
> Assuming OS/2 was performing timeslicing, I would expect CPU
> processing power to be SHARED (50-50) between these tasks.
>
> Yet the audio stream *did* drop out on occasion.  Was that
> because Mozilla was giving itself __higher__ priority ?
>
> If so, can the __user__ somehow limit how greedy Mozilla becomes ?
> Or, if my audio stream is more important to me than Mozilla, must
> I manually RAISE the priority at which the audio stream task runs ?
>
> mikus


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