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From: peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu (Peter A. Blemel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Looking for experience with bug fix.
Message-ID: <3578@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 89 07:22:30 GMT
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Organization: New Mexico Tech Hydrology Program
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Hi folks,

   IBM thinks that they may have a fix to my Interleaf woes (as a refresher
Interleaf kills the machine because it runs in monitor mode on the VRM at
an elevated priority).

   They say that this patch will allow me to change the nice value of any
process (running on the VRM or not) and that it contains "miscelanious"
other fixes. Unfortunately, they say it hasn't been tested much and that
it may have "side effects". Even more unfortunately, they won't elaborate
on what these potential side effects are.

   Does any one have any experience with this fix? I'd hate for the fix
to be worse than the original problem. IBM also says that they supply
a utility to 'remove' the fix should it prove catastrophic. Is it at all
safe to assume that this 'remover' will clean up properly? 

I'd appriciate any comments.

Peter
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