MB> This is exactly right.  In fact, the effect will be 
 MB> extremely unfair if the processes are usually both 
 MB> waiting on I/O, since the I/O will usually not be 
 MB> assigned in round robin fashion.  This can be 
 MB> compensated for if you have control of every thread 
 MB> on the scheduler by making explicit yield calls, 
 MB> but that will also hurt performance, achieving 
 MB> fairness at the expense of thrash.
 
Is this true even with PRIORITY=ABSOLUTE?
 
- Mike

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