-> Kathleen Weber wrote in a message to Jim Fitzsimmons:
->
-> KW> Try adding to your CONFIG.SYS the following:
->
-> KW>                   PRIORITY_DISK_IO=NO
->
-> KW> This tells the system to not give Priority to ANY program
-> KW> that's window is currently active (whether DOS, WIN or
-> KW> OS/2).  OS/2 will try to give equal priority to all running
-> KW> programs with this command in COMFIG.SYS.
->
-> Just so you know, this has been broken in all releases of Warp.  The
-> foreground process will get priority in the HPFS driver at a low leve

I haven't found any problem when using this in my CONFIG.SYS.  Packing
my BBS message base takes 2 hours when it is the only program running
and that is when it is the 'active' screen up.

In the last few weeks I found I have had to do quite a bit of work
while the BBS message base is packing since I have a backlog at work.
So while it is running the pack routine, I am open and closing all kinds
of applications (OS/2, Win and DOS based). Most of the time I have two
or more programs running (I am active in using the other open programs)
while the pack routine goes.  It still takes 2 hours flat.

With a program that would be so sensitive to any sort of change in the
CPU processor allocation it is very easy to see if something else is
taking away from it.

I believe this does work and it really causes no harm to try it anyway.
If it doesn't work then it can always be changed back.

Kathleen Weber  [Team OS/2]
kathleen{at}webergrp.com

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