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From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
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>All I want is: when I run a bunch of
>yielders and a actual working process, I want the
>working process to not be slown down (wall clock) in
>anyway. That's all. What top shows is of little interest
>(to me). What matters is how many real world seconds it takes
>for the actually working process to complete its task.
>And that should not be affected by the presence of running
>yielders. And, David, no one is arguing the fact that a yielder
>running all by itself should log 100% of the CPU.

	Your assumptions are just plain wrong. The yielder is being nice, so it 
should get preferential treatment, not worse treatment. All threads are 
ready-to-run all the time. Yielding is not the same as blocking or lowering 
your priority.

	DS


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