Asri-unix.557 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!gwyn@UTEXAS-11 Sun Jan 17 07:49:56 1982 Reply to: nice Modern UNIX schedulers are tuned to give better response to highly interactive processes already! Nice can help some but it is sort of indirect... why not implement "real-time" process support (I plan to put this on the next USENIX conference tape) to obtain true pre-emptive scheduling if that is what you really want? ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.