Some extensive system health monitoring

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:05:24PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:

> REAL TIME, i.e. not batch
> 
> A batch task takes X amount of data and crunches it down until it's done
> with it; a real-time task has to interact with the user and thus spends
> more time sleeping and waiting for keyboard/mouse interrupts than
> actually using CPU.

In UNIX land, these are "interactive" tasks/processes, and "real-time" means
something entirely different.

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 - mdz