Asri-unix.557 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!gwyn@UTEXAS-11 Sun Jan 17 07:49:56 1982 Reply to: nice Modern UNIX schedulers are tuned to give better response to highly interactive processes already! Nice can help some but it is sort of indirect... why not implement "real-time" process support (I plan to put this on the next USENIX conference tape) to obtain true pre-emptive scheduling if that is what you really want? -------