Re: Background processing priority?

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00

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Steve Rogers <listbox@thebeast.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Is it possible to measure accurately how much time an application gives
> to background applications?  It would be useful to know, for example,
> whether an app performing some large filing operation in the background
> - like Anarchie or Speed Doubler 8 for example - will be slowed down or
> not by some particular app running in front.

ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/mac/umich/util/developer/mo
nitor1.53.sit.hqx

can help.

The best way of finding out if something's being slowed down is by
measuring how long it takes to do a job.  Anarchie, for example, seems
quite happy downloading stuff flat out (or as flat out as it can get
with my 33.6 modem) with most processor time taken up by something else
- and this is on my Performa 475 with its super-speedy 25MHz 68LC040...

Rowland.

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