Finally fixed? "Nice" in Mac OS X Leopard
14 May 2009 21:14:30 UTC
Topic 194347
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It has been a little known fact that running processes as "nice" (as the apps used in BOINC) didn't really work as desired in OS X "Leopard". The nice processes should run at a lower priority, but simply didn't. Very annoying indeed. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5854252
Now, after applying the latest OS X update, my little Mac mini feels much more responsive while running BOINC.
Is it possible? Was this really fixed now? Anybody know anything about this?
Bikeman
Finally fixed? "Nice" in Mac OS X Leopard
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Far more likely is the change to the com stack as helping. I am curious to see if this also helps the manager "freeze" we had been reporting. I will note that I had not had one in a long time again. BUt, intermittent problems are the hardest thing to fix because just when you think you have it, you find out you don't...
More worrisome is that I had my first kernel panic in ages just moments ago ... sent in the report so, hopefully whatever it was will be in the next minor patch we can expect in a day or so ... it had been a long time without a patch and this one seemed to be moderately big to me ... so, all up in the air ... I just hope I don't need to back out the change...
I believe it has something to
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I believe it has something to do with the article below:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/05/15/did-mac-os-x-10-5-7-modify-management-of-multithreaded-tasks