Mike Byrne wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

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

 MBy> Is this true even with PRIORITY=ABSOLUTE?

The simple answer is that I have never tried that, so I don't know.
 
-- Mike


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