nspluginviewer priority on newer linux kernel

[Stefanos Harhalakis]

On Thursday 16 August 2007, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> The sad situation is that Linux isn't really designed to run a GUI (no
> *NIX is) and it isn't really that good at doing it.  IIUC, a process can
> only be actually stopped when it asks for input and receives none.  Yes,
> the scheduler starts and stops it as it multi-tasks, but the process is
> still scheduled to run till it is blocked when it asks for input.  So,
> really, the GUI is doing cooperative multitasking.

  For what you're describing, it can also be stopped by receiving a SIGSTOP 
signal (and continue using a SIGCONT) or when waiting for a semaphore. It can 
also sleep for a very long period of time (using sleep()) and wake up by a 
signal.