4.2bsd kernel auto-nicing, scheduling

[Boyd Roberts]

  >> 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?

By "algorithm" I mean something that has been designed.  It was not
used in the definitive sense.  Or,

	Hack != Algorithm

Yes, there is a paper.  And, there should be a new one.  Ask "piers at basser.oz".

A "hack" is never a "solution", it's a "rabid mess".


Boyd Roberts

+++
+   ..!mcvax!ukc!inset!boyd
+   boyd at inset.co.uk
+   boyd at basser.oz
+
+++ "Isn't that kind of severe?"