[PD] -rt for whom?

Larry Troxler lt at westnet.com
Tue Jul 6 01:47:51 CEST 2004


On Monday 05 July 2004 18:07, Miller Puckette wrote:
> Until recently (0.37 I think) Pd just tried to renice itself on OSX, but
> currently it uses pthread_setschedparam() to set the SCHED_RR policy.
> I'm not sure how this relates to SCHED_FIFO and I sure should find out :).
>

SCHED_RR and SCHED_FIFO are close. I think the only difference is if the tasks 
have the same priority, then maybe SCHED_RR actually starts time-slicing.

But don't take my work for it, look it up :-)

Larry





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