Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!labrea!glacier!jbn 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 Article-I.D.: glacier.17118 Posted: Tue Jul 7 02:28:04 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 05:38:44 EDT References: <1257@wanginst.EDU> <757@cpocd2.UUCP> <3157@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 10 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