Martijn Tonies wrote:

>>If classic server, your batch would run on a separate process. Could you
>>perhaps set that process to lower priority than the others in the OS?
>
> No, you shouldn't!
>
> If an additional Classic process runs at lower priority, it might not
> get activated at all, or very slowly. This can result in resource locks
> in such a way that other Classic processes cannot use those resources.

Interesting. Does this apply to Win32? I think I've heard that Windows'
process scheduler has rather high "fairness" meaning it assigns slots to
lower prio processes even if higher prio ones still have work to do.

Kjell
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