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Re: Sleep

🔗Robert Walker <robertwalker@...>

10/5/2001 10:49:39 PM

Jon,

Thanks for the suggestion. Actually had sleep interrupted a fair amount
recently for one reason and another and also been putting it as
low priority, so you are right on about that.

Possibly some recent bugs may indeed have been because of inattentativeness
because of that, and the fresher and more alert one is the less likely
- looking at the type of bug they have been, such as forgetting to do
something or other. I also tend to work long hours and forget to take
breaks, being so interested in it all.

However, p.c.s get a lot done, and they spend the vast majority of the
time asleep, even when pretty "busy" - I understand that it is very rare
that it actually uses the processor to capacity continuously for any
length of time, even if it is ultra short interrupted sleep of a few
milliseconds at a time, or when it is at its most busy, sleeps
perhaps measured in millionths of a second, or whatever it is.

Perhaps one can learn from that.

I plan to set it to highest priority, as you say.

Robert