Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihdev!pdg From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Emacs process niced after awhile Message-ID: <1475@ihdev.ATT.COM> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:37:10 EDT Article-I.D.: ihdev.1475 Posted: Wed Jul 8 12:37:10 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 10:55:34 EDT References: <1257@wanginst.EDU> <757@cpocd2.UUCP> <3157@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <17118@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (Joe Isuzu) Organization: American Nasal Amputation Centre Lines: 17 In article <17118@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes: > Whatever happened to the Maryland scheduler, which replaced the >simple-minded UNIX scheduling system with reasonable algorithms? For another nicely implemented scheduler, see the AT&T BLTJ V63#8/2 (Oct 84) article by G.J. Henry on the Fair Share Scheduler. This distributes processing resources into assignable groups. Anyway, it's a good idea that we use on *very* large processors hereabouts. It does seem to have a few problems with more I/O bound stuff, though (GNUmacs runs so fast that zippy and the psychoanalyst talk megabytes/second!! :-) All in all, a large improvement. -- Paul Guthrie "Another day, another Jaguar" ihnp4!ihdev!pdg -- Pat Sajak