Re: Interactive Feature Upgrade Theory

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Nathan M. Andelin <nandelin@RELATIONAL-DATA.COM>
> My understanding is that the impact of CFINT on batch jobs depends on
> whether they run in the same partition as the interactive jobs, or not.  To
> lessen the impact on batch workload, I heard that you could dedicate a
> separate partition to "non-interactive".  Is that correct?
>

maybe, if the partition runs on a different processor. The way CFINT
takes cycles away from you is to load the "Decrementer" register
with such a small value that timer interrupts happen very frequently,
thus forcing the processor to spend more time processing timer
interrupt rather than getting on with your jobs (interactive or batch,
doesn't matter). After all, CFINT is just the general interrupt processor,
not s special task for applying the interactive punishment.