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From: jonasn@ttds.UUCP (Jonas Nygren)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Memory utilization & inter-process
Message-ID: <1241@ttds.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 11:51:07 GMT
References: <3332@blake.acs.washington.edu> <261500008@S34.Prime.COM>
Reply-To: jonasn@ttds.UUCP (Jonas Nygren)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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In article <261500008@S34.Prime.COM> BEAR@S34.Prime.COM writes:
>
>    I believe what you're looking for is a working set scheduler. In a
>nutshell, this type of scheduler pages a job against itself rather than
>against the system (i.e. the pool of available pages belongs to the process
>(rather than the system) and is of a size set by the system when then process
>is created). Unfortunately, I can't think of an available OS that uses a WS
>scheduler off the top of my head (that doesn't mean they don't exist!). Good
>luck.
>
>--
>
>Bob Beckwith
>Prime Computer, Inc.
>
>Internet: bear@s34.prime.com


Hasn't RT/AIX some similar feature to working-set scheduling. I have a vague
remembrance that this was stated in something I read. Can anybody confirm?
(This is a secret poll to estimate the number of RTs out there :-)

/jonas