Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!draken!d88-jwa From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac Message-ID: <2421@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 28 Nov 89 14:50:40 GMT References: <6432@tank.uchicago.edu> <1574@intercon.com> <14002@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 20 In article <14002@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe@nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Guangliang He) writes: >Complaining that you can't control the speed of a job on a UNIX machine >is ignorance, too. On a UNIX machine, you really get the control you >want. Although you can't go too faster (get a cray if you really want >fast). you can always slow your job. Nice the job, put it in So why do the sysops here swear over BSD job-scheduling ? Yes, because you can't nice much enough. You can't say "Run this process only while the load drops below 3.8". I hear IBM is good on these things (they SURE know how to take care of batches :-) The sun always shines in my mac h+ -- ALL of it, NOW ! -- If you wanna see my *real* .sig, mail h+@nada.kth.se or h+@proxxi.se