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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!chsun!bernina!torda
- From: torda@igc.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda)
- Subject: rtnetd - Do I want it ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.105631.24514@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zuerich
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:56:31 GMT
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- The manual entry for rtnetd says that:
- It is always started on multiprocessor systems and is started on
- uniprocessor systems if the chkconfig(1M) flag rtnetd is set ``on.''
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- If I have some multiprocessor machines which just do number crunching,
- is this what I want ?
- I don't think I have any real time processes who should be preempting
- anyone.
- Furthermore, the manual entry network(1M) says
- rtnetd Initialize preemptable networking for real-time use.
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- but why do I want to preempt networking stuff ? Shouldn't it just be
- left alone to do its stuff ?
- I can understand that it probably doing any harm, but is it just
- sitting around taking up a process slot ?
- -Andrew
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- Andrew Torda, Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zurich, torda@igc.ethz.ch
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