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> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:38 PM, David T. Lewis <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> Lower the priority of all other threads, which would be equivalent to
>> running Squeak under nice(1), which generally works fine.
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> This doesn't work because in contemporary linux SCHED_OTHER threads are all of the same priority.  One can neither raise nor lower their priority.  nice changes a process's dynamic priority, not its static priority (see sched_setscheduler(2) and my footnote)
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