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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Emacs process niced after awhile
Message-ID: <17118@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 02:28:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  7 02:28:04 1987
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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      Whatever happened to the Maryland scheduler, which replaced the 
simple-minded UNIX scheduling system with reasonable algorithms?
(Bear in mind that Richie and Thompson designed the process-table 
scheduler for a rather small machine, and that it scales up badly.)
Scheduling was figured out in the 1960s (F.J. Corbato, Project MAC,
MIT), by the way, and good algorithms are in the literature.  One
can do better than "auto-nicing".  Much better.

					John Nagle