Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Memory utilization & inter-process contention
Message-ID: <1989Aug23.171306.2024@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3332@blake.acs.washington.edu> <1989Aug22.163100.25540@utzoo.uucp> <26642@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <9aid02rf4dNn01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 17:13:06 GMT

In article <9aid02rf4dNn01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> sbf10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Samuel Fuller) writes:
>Unix has the opposite problem.  When a Unix system is very heavily loaded
>everybody notices. Programs run slowly and response time goes to hell.
>
>Is there a happy middle ground?

A better scheduler is reported to help a whole lot.  The existing Unix one
was mean for small timesharing systems with no significant background load.
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