dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (04/30/86)
>Isn't there a pgm to set the priority of a running task? If there isn't >it seems to me that C-A screwed up by not providing it (not a big screw-up, >just a little one). Aside from that, shouldn't the RUN cmd have an >option which allows the user to specify the priority? > >Just a thought. No, but there is an EXEC call to do it. The one catch is you have to find the process first. Since all the RUN processes are named the same, I could find no way to renice the one that I just executed. The other problem with this is that you would then have to say 'renice .... (assuming such a program exists)' every time you RUN a process (bad english, I know). I still think the best solution is to modify the actual binary for RUN... With the actual binary for RUN running proc's at 0, I Have been able to use my modem while compiling in the background. My modem program is executed via a 'RUN modem' from my shell. Using standard RUN, the poor modem program is set to -5 and the compile at 0... which causes problems. I have noticed that a continuous data stream at 2400 baud (printing to the screen), slows down the computer quite a bit. Anybody have any ideas where all the time is being taken up? Also, I've found a bug with '^G' on the console screen. Sometimes, the screen doesn't un-reverse (e.g. the entire workbench screen stays in reverse instead of flashing, and further flashes go 'reverse-unreverse-reverse'... ) It seems to happen when one is sending a stream of ^G's to the console device. -Matt