Right now, with the board so slow, I have 4 windows open, and am awaiting threads to load from 4 forums. I keep switching back and forth to see if anything has appeared yet.
So, is there any task priority involved in the wait? Or is that irrelevant if the Board is not answering me at all.
Also, I’m assuming that the 4 requests don’t interfer with each other. That’s correct isn’t it? I haven’t actually reduced my chances of getting a page back, have I?
Boosting in case there’s a techie in today’s crowd.
If you don’t know the answer, any ideas where else I could ask this? (I tried Microsoft Databank but they must get millions more questions than they can answer in a year.)
When you send packets over the internet, there is no field that says “this packet is going to the top most browser”. So from the internet’s point of view, no priority is given to any specific window. From the OS point of view, the window in focus probably does have higher priority but it probably won’t influence the wait since the bottleneck is outside of the OS anyway.
I hope that makes sense.
As xizor pointed out, the bottleneck is not the OS, but the server.
Windows allows the top application to get a performance boost. Maybe that’s what you are thinking of.
Like Doc said, top applications get preference, though you could, therefore, see the tiniest performance difference if you’re using Netscape and the pages you’re loading have a kabillion nested tables (of the sort my lazy-ass is prone to making).