Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!cache.uni-koblenz.de!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Toward more ruly background apps Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:12:04 +0100 Organization: University Koblenz-Landau Campus Koblenz Lines: 24 Message-ID: <874nxtsdnv.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> References: <2qhsc7d9ib953i1tnipa8jm7i25jbdfhpo@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: cache.uni-koblenz.de 1322151127 18691 141.26.67.142 (24 Nov 2011 16:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cache.uni-koblenz.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:12:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tMjNIehH++S7DajEEKMZPtPjICQ= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10206 "Jeffrey H. Coffield" 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.))) Brian Hayes, http://tinyurl.com/3y9l2kf