Forking processes and priorities

Kurt Thams thams at thams.com
Thu Feb 26 01:07:09 UTC 1998


I've tried forking processes and not had happy results. In summary, I
want to have something running in the background, updating a screen.
When I use

	[ relevantcode] forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority

the process seems to get cycles only *very* rarely (it would sometimes
be dozens of seconds before the process got cycles). This happens on
both Win95 and Solaris, and even though nothing else is happening. I
tried very simple cases of just having the background process send lines
to the transcript, and got the same behavior. 

Is there something to know about here?

-- kurt





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