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- From: petrin@walrus.megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Foreground task always highest priority?
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 19:34:39 +0200
- Organization: Megabaud Oy,Helsinki,Finland
- Message-ID: <4g53jf$6nr@walrus.megabaud.fi>
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- Chris J Schnurr (cjs@icbl.hw.ac.uk) writes:
- >>Look for Executive on Aminet. And it's not a patch. It's a brilliant
- >>task scheduler that dynamically and "intelligently" adjusts the task
- >>priorities. Shareware, but fully functioning.
- >>
- >
- >I have given up with executive. I found that workbench was extremely sluggish
- >when lightwave was rendering on the other screen. same with vistapro.
-
- That's why the "Schedule Workbench" option is OFF by default. If
- Workbench is scheduled, it has to "fight" for CPU time like all
- other tasks and that will cause it to be eventually blocked by
- some higher priority task.
-
- >I don't confess to be a programmer, I'm a user, and executive made my machine
- >less useful.
-
- You really should to try Executive again.
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