On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:31 -0400, Craddock, Chris wrote: > Back in the day you would see pretty bad cpu > (queuing) contention at 70-odd percent in UNIX systems that did lots of > multitasking because there was no moral equivalent of SRM or WLM making > effective choices about who was more deserving. UNIX had and still has a > priority scheme but frankly its pretty lame.
I generally hate to argue with CC in public - much better done in person where we can agree on the alcohol of choice before beginning. With regard to Linux, I'm sure Ingo Molnar would take umbrage at the above - significant advances have been made. As usual, just catching up with our collective computing environment of choice, but getting there none-the-less. There is major (pre- ???) alpha code development of a workload management paradigm under way - I happen to think it has lost it's way a bit, but let's see what develops. But it'll be a while until it makes it to the kernel mainline methinks. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
