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From: u31b3hs@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
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Subject: >New features for MINIX
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Date: 5 Feb 91 11:27:28 GMT
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Reply-To: u31b3hs@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
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>>16. Better scheduling algorithms.
>It is a single user machine.  Round robin should be good enough for that.
You never saw my machine, a few months ago there were up to three real
users and sometimes up to 6 logins.  I like and use multitasking for
working, but if one jobs eats a lot of CPU time, round robin is no longer
good enough.

The machine is a 386 20MHz AT with 2 MB RAM, three serial lines and a
70 MB winchester.  It runs PC MINIX 1.5.10.

A better scheduling algorithm would be very fine and not too hard to
implement.  I can understand that a multi-threaded file system means
a lot of work, but a better scheduling algorithm should be ok.

Michael Haardt (u31b3hs%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet)