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Re: Toward more ruly background apps

From Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Toward more ruly background apps
Date 2011-11-24 17:12 +0100
Organization University Koblenz-Landau Campus Koblenz
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"Jeffrey H. Coffield" <jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com> writes:

Hi!

>> 4. Do Linux people fare any better?  I imagine most windows users
>> have programs in the background, but they would nearly always be
>> idle. This problem is likely not high on the MS priority list.
>
> Unix/Linux has nice.

Yep, for CPU scheduling, and additionally ionice for IO scheduling.  And
there are demons like verynice that can be used to automatically adjust
priorities for certain applications, e.g., compile tasks.

Nowadays, there're also control groups in the kernel that allow for
grouping processes and setting policies for them.

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
(What the world needs (I think) is not
      (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
      but (an English (with more.)))
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Toward more ruly background apps Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-24 05:44 -0800
  Re: Toward more ruly background apps Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-11-24 16:27 +0100
    Re: Toward more ruly background apps Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-24 08:41 -0800
      Re: Toward more ruly background apps Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-24 09:18 -0800
  Re: Toward more ruly background apps "Jeffrey H. Coffield" <jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com> - 2011-11-24 07:34 -0800
    Re: Toward more ruly background apps Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> - 2011-11-24 17:12 +0100
  Re: Toward more ruly background apps Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-24 09:24 -0800
    Re: Toward more ruly background apps Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-24 15:36 -0800
      Re: Toward more ruly background apps Fistulina Hepatica <f.hep3@spore.dispersal.org> - 2011-11-24 22:29 -0500
        Re: Toward more ruly background apps "Manh Tuong Lewis Nguyen" <matln@sfu.ca> - 2011-11-25 03:01 +0000
          Re: Toward more ruly background apps thoolen <tholen01@gmail.com> - 2011-11-25 01:19 -0800
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  Re: Toward more ruly background apps Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-24 21:46 -0500

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