Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!wivax!cadmus!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Load control and intelligence in schedulers Message-ID: <916@opus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 01:00:59 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.916 Posted: Fri Oct 26 01:00:59 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 06:47:51 EDT References: <151@desint.UUCP> <4451@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 14 > The problem with being smart about giving higher priority to processes > that do terminal i/o is that all sorts of interesting programs start > sprouting unnecessary terminal i/o... > I'm not saying it can't be done well, just that care is needed. Terminal > input should be considered much more significant than output, for purposes > of scheduling. OK, but be careful to distinguish actual (requested) input--something from the keyboard which satisfies an outstanding read from the program. Otherwise you give the users (rather than programs) a way to kick the priority--just bang on the return key every now and then. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.