site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1248950980; bh=R36j1SniBsz0C8op6omFa2xHRKxXQcdm7uWLgt+2piM=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=kJBT+vayyJ9y0zfhKAGRWUumRgEkSSFTpjkPFgCGw+1eAxPMtGz5+CDYFfdlJuYQKLgHatlvMvanoAcoWuIJ5xSC7/cttCIcOC/s6UOhipIL48ClAb+qHo//WVobdt8rxIG42l2iMP8IAxJHl8vOPMUKaOpv9yKeXOzTLTdMhr4= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ysejdKHbFixRcNGTSkwC9Lz2kgRNgOMUF6w0wj818rf0rreIkxedCBTKCJyt6LHJ9u8nTcfnsML9etgnUdZAypySgdXUCXY95po7L1n/o0zFgg+e9VoI53yUcdWWE8SAyMnUBPTloDncEbkgav0Qg/lYIU3u/BjLLnbtMsT8+J8=; Hi! --- On Thu, 7/30/09, William Kucharski <kucharsk@mac.com> wrote:

For the record, I'm not writing anything, just making a reasonable guess about what others are trying to accomplish given what "nice -19" does on most other UNIX variants.

Just for the record, on most Unixes (Linux included) by my experience processed with the lowest possible priority still get quite some CPU cycles (and not just spare ones). (My opinion is that it is just that those low priority processes do not make interactive programs unresponsive.) So behavior in this sense is similar to Mac OS X behavior. But there exist rtprio to solve this problem. And I am wondering if there is anything similar on Mac OS X. Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com