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Re: Application perceptions (was Re: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #77 6 - 16 msgs )

From: "James Rich" <james@eaerich.com>
> And if you're *really* smart you will use the sleep() system
> call so you don't waste cpu cycles burning through loops.

And taking it to one more level, how about letting the OS divide available
CPU time according to job priority and job time slice parameters?  Move away
from performance governors?  Upgrade the hardware, or divide the work across
multiple systems when performance gets bad?

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com

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