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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