german@harvard.ARPA (Steve German) (06/27/84)
When running a large program in franzlisp under 4.2BSD, something causes the priority of the process to be lowered. I noticed that a large lisp program was being set to "nice 4" repeatedly, without my doing anything. Is this a "feature" of franzlisp, and if so, can anyone tell me which files it is implemented in? Steve German
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (06/29/84)
It's not in Franz, it's in the kernel: after 10 CPU minutes, processes
that are at ``nice 0'' are automatically reset to ``nice 4'' (there are
exceptions but you don't want to know about them just now). The only
solution (aside from changing the kernel) is to run at a nice other than
0 (1 for example).
If no one else is using the machine, then don't worry about the automatic
nice-ing, it won't really affect you much.
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