[unios] Re: games

Pieter Dumon Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be
Tue, 8 Dec 1998 13:24:08 +0100 (MET)


From: Pieter Dumon <Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be>

> I do believe that the multitasking is important for gaming... at least the
> action-based 3D games. Almost everybody I know has experienced the infamous
> win95/98 jerks every 10-15 minutes when playing calculation-intensive
> games. This seems for me to be a scheduling issue.
> 

It's just an organization error. In Unix, there is also always a daemon 
running that temporaly frees unneeded physical pages. But this routine is
quick and smart...
Win95/98 is not.
 
Pieter


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