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Re: RC4 crack
On Mon, 17 Jul 1995 [email protected] 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