Process Browser (was: Re: Some camparisons between squeak versions.)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Sep 12 15:58:57 UTC 2006


J J wrote:
> 
> I'm new to smalltalk of course, but the numbers are pretty standard for 
> any scheduler afaik.  The first numbers in parens are the priority (e.g. 
> (50) is priority 50).  The lower that number the more
> likely the scheduler is to pick you to run.  The next number would be 
> the process ID.  This is just
> an arbitrary counter type number given by the scheduler to identify 
> processes.  Idle is a very low
> number because it gets started early on (I would guess).
> 
>> My process browser says:
>> (80) 3400: the timer interrrupt watcher
>> (60) 3253: the event tickler
>> (60) 3837: the user interrupt watcher
>> (60) 2532: the low sapce watcher
>> (50) 1497: the WeakArray finalization process
>> (40) 3184: the UI process
>> (10)     53: the idle process

Actually, the numbers are not based on a counter assigned by the 
scheduler, but are just a hash value to identify the process.

And, please remember to adjust the subject when switching topics.

- Bert -



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