[Info-vax] nice for VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <49DF8D32.DB95CFD4 at spam.comcast.net>, David J Dachtera <djesys.no at spam.comcast.net> writes:
> 
> Funny thing is - on an otherwise idle machine, a CPU intensive process
> at DEFPRI will NOT consume 100% of a single CPU. Dunno if that's just a
> quirk of the scheduler or what.
> 

   The scheduler itself will wake up peridically just to see that it
   has nothing to do.  In fact there a many things which can get woke
   up just because the clock interrupt has fired.