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From: ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
Message-ID: <14008@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 28 Nov 89 16:49:59 GMT
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In article <2421@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
> 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".
> 

So, please tell me how to do this type thing under multifinder.


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