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RE: So... that means that you have a service running, which performs backups on schedule.

"Quite simply, it's a matter of priorities."

That's what schedulers do, manage priorities.


If you use any scheduled tasks then the system runs a service called the task scheduler engine. On my Windows 7 system this services uses 2 MB of RAM out of my 12 GB and has used 0.00 seconds of CPU time, done 3 disk reads and had 1800 page faults since the system booted 4 days ago. I suspect this service is sitting on a clock queue. At 2 AM my sound quality will degrade when the engine activates the backup software. Actually, about five minutes earlier my NAS powers up on a built in clock and this definitely degrades sound quality with two fans and 5 disks spinning noisily. All this will be done before I wake up.

If you are worried about this minute amount of overhead I would recommend writing your own real-time operating system. You can strip it down as much as you like. Or more realistically, you can use a Linux distro so you will have complete control over everything and tweak anything you like in the computer. Or you can run JPlay in Hibernation mode and all of the OS nasties will be suspended while listening to music. (That's assuming you aren't running JRiver. :-) )


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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