Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:42:59 + Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] alleged: At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:16:54PM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: Sigh. Nobody really does compute-bound tasks anymore, do they? I really miss scientific programming. [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mersenne prime project, protein folding and the list goes on (the mersenne prime project web site includes an

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Wes Peters
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:29:54 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) alleged: Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the classic trade-offs in making a 'server' vs. 'workstation' operating system. Workstations require a strong preference for interactive over background tasks so

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigh. Nobody really does compute-bound tasks anymore, do they? I really miss scientific programming. Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction yesterday at finding out

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Colin Percival
At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction yesterday at finding out that her latest program only takes four and a half hours per data set. But honey, says I, you

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Wes Peters
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:42:59 + Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] alleged: At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction yesterday at finding out that her

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-09 Thread Wes Peters
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 08:41 am, Robert Watson wrote: On 9 Mar 2004, Bin Ren wrote: I've been reading sched_ule.c and seem to find a serious error: in 'sched_slice()': * Rationale: * KSEs in interactive ksegs get the minimum slice so that we * quickly

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the classic trade-offs in making a 'server' vs. 'workstation' operating system. Workstations require a strong preference for interactive over background tasks so the interactive tasks will remain responsive, especially in terms of heavily

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-09 Thread Robert Watson
On 9 Mar 2004, Bin Ren wrote: Hi, all: I've been reading sched_ule.c and seem to find a serious error: in 'sched_slice()': * Rationale: * KSEs in interactive ksegs get the minimum slice so that we * quickly notice if it abuses its advantage. Then, there