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BLOGIT.NU - Priority Boost setting
By default, the priority boost setting is 0, which causes SQL Server to run at a normal priority whether you run SQL Server on a uniprocessor computer or on ...
www.blogit.nu/article15.html

priority boost Option
Use the priority boost option to specify whether Microsoft® SQL Server™ should run at a higher Microsoft Windows NT® scheduling priority than other ...
http://doc.ddart.net/mssql/sql70/1_server_50.htm

Java Threads - Google Books Result
by Scott Oaks, Henry Wong - 2004 - Computers - 358 pages
On another level, a thread that has not run for a very long time is given a temporary priority boost. The value of this boost decays over time as the thread ...
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0596007825...