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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:50:32 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rtprio from non-root users ?
Message-ID:  <19970617185032.VJ21658@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199706170803.KAA17560@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Jun 17, 1997 10:03:42 %2B0200
References:  <19970615103831.BN11477@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199706170803.KAA17560@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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As Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> In light of the recent discussion on disk scheduling etc. it turns
> out that probably the biggest danger for a correct cd burn is the
> fact that a process may be starved by another disk-intensive activity
> (although team is so aggressive that it is unlikely to become the
> victim of starvation).

Right.  I've seen it starving when heavy paging was going on (from a
netpbm process allocating way more than the physical memory).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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