4.2bsd kernel auto-nicing, scheduling

[Steven Brian McKechnie Sargent]

> > Some fairly viable work has been done on SHARE scheduling on UNIX
> > in Australia.  You should check it out.  It actually uses some
> > algorithms, and was even designed.
> 
> Given that I don't speak English or Australian, just whatever we speak here
> in the USofA (no, it's not American, considering Canadians don't speak
> exactly the same language either, and they're (North) Americans as well),
> what do you mean by "algorithms" here?  Over here, we tend to think
> "algorithm" as meaning any procedure of the sort executed by a computer,
> whether it's well thought-out or specified or not.  You may think of
> auto-nicing as a hack (I certainly do), but by my definition the procedure
> that implements it certainly qualifies as an algorithm....
> -- 
> 	Guy Harris
> 	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
> 	guy at sun.arpa	(yes, really)

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You twit.