[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Gearon, Paul]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Gearon, Paul" <pgea at qcom.com.au>)

> Mark aludes to a very important point, which is that (I think) most OSs
> intended for desktops or servers don't do priority inversion, and so
> giving _no_ cycles to a low-priority task would run the risk of starving
> higher-priority tasks that are waiting for their resources.
> 
Exactly Linus's point!

For some reason this concept of process starving does not seem to worry the
makers of NT...

Paul Gearon
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane
mittam.  (Translation from latin: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money,
or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.") 



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