[interfacekit] Re: __mime_table
- From: "Erik Jaesler" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: interfacekit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:14:15 -0700
>> One other MIME related thing I should mention is that, while speaking
>> with AnEvilYak a few weeks ago, he noted that the automatic MIME
>> sniffer on his system never runs when he has something like SETI
>> running in the background all the time. He mentioned that it might be
>> nice if we could implement a way around this, as he always has to
>> manually identify files otherwise.
>
>Very good point. Perhaps it is sufficient to not just to look, if there
>are spare CPU cycles at all, but, in case there are no spare cycle, to
>analyze what priority the processes have that consume most of the
cycles.
>Supposing that SETI and similar background number crunching processes
have
>the lowest imaginable priority, this seems to be a reasonable strategy.
Another possibility, which might be a bit too hackish, would be to set
up a BMessageRunner so that our sniffing happens on a reasonably regular
schedule regardless of what else is going on.
e
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argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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