On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:16:32 -0700 (PDT) 
 Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> wrote:

 > It sounds to me as if we're going the wrong direction for this,
 > and what we really want is some way to give the userland process
 > enough priority that it's going to get the time it needs even on
 > a heavily loaded system.

You mean, like POSIX real-time scheduling?

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