Process Scheduling
Irix is a Symmetric Multiprocessing Operating System
- Processes and Processors are independent
- Parallel programs are executed as jobs with multiple processes
- The Scheduler will allocate processes to processors
Priority range from 0 to 255
1-40 time share (interactive) (TS)
90-239 system (daemons and interrupts)
1-255 real time processes (FIFO & RR)