On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:26:36 -0700 Chris Ohmstede <[email protected]> wrote: > I do understand the concept of multi-tasking since I first learned > programming on a Univac and a Cray (showing my age.)
We're both going on ancienf then Chris. ;o) > I just didn't see the need to go into the concept of context switching > (perhaps I was > wrong.) I was simply trying to show that gui apps tend to spend most their > time processing > user input. They spin through their message cue and if nothing is left to > do, they release > context. Indeed. as to whether Inte > pdf2swf doesn't work this way, it gets all it's user input when it starts > and grinds on > through until it is done (I haven't looked that deeply into the code but I > don't think there > are any embedded sleeps to release the context.) I know pdf2swf is a command line application, but it is still under the control of the environment within under which it's running - or should be. It doesn't dp the context switching, the o/s should. anyws, we still don't know what exactly 'Mr Testing' was up to, do we? > By lowering the thread priority I would only be advising the thread to switch > context more often > leaving more processor time for the applications that have been adversely > effected. No argument there. > And last, since the question was for Windows server 2008 specifically, I'm > not sure where > Hyper-threading not being cross platform is an issue. It's not an issue - though there has been a lot of debate as to the benefits of enabling it on Intel based systems. I was simoly noting that it was specific to hardware architecture Chris, not operating system. Cheers, Chris -- <[email protected]> --------------- SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend an existing subscription, please kindly point your favourite web browser at:<http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common>
