From: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 22:06:12 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: RC4 crack
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On Mon, 17 Jul 1995 aba@dcs.exeter.ac.uk wrote:

> The problem with nicing is that most unix schedulers don't seem to
> know what nice means,.. you still get a noticable slow down on
> interactive jobs on SGI boxes even if you've got it npri -h 150, and
> even though the bruterc4 (and the bruteSSL too) have tiny resident
> core sizes).

Nice -19 works great on SunOS, it sits there happily eating up just about
all the unused CPU time and doesn't interfere at all with interactive
use. I guess it's the SYSV (ack) machines that have problems, 'cause the 
scheduler's too sophisticated.

		Mark