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From: doug@cogent.UUCP (Doug Perlich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Getting the most for a process.
Summary: Dedication, priority.
Keywords: Dedication, priority.
Message-ID: <593@cogent.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 20:18:01 GMT
Reply-To: doug@cogent.UUCP (Doug Perlich)
Organization: Cogent Software Solutions, Inc.
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I have recently become interested in having an application program run as fast
as possible!  (Sound familiar)?

What I am interested in is how can a program get a higher priority at run time.
More exactly what other methods are there to get screaming performance out of
a UNIX machine.
As I understand it only root can use a negative nice to make a program run
faster, are there ways of dedicating a processor (w/ or wo/ a multiprocessor)?

I am mainly interested in a multi-user system.

It seems to me the answer is no because then every programmer would try this
in his/her code and the system would halt.

-Doug.
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