Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX v7 calling sched()
Message-ID: <1422@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 19 Apr 91 22:48:32 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.172939.6348@ncsu.edu> <7101@segue.segue.com> <4039@risky.Convergent.COM> <7128@segue.segue.com>
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In article <7128@segue.segue.com> jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter) writes:
>In article <4039@risky.Convergent.COM> scottl@convergent.com (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>I seem to recall a caveat in Lyons commentary to the effect of 
>>   "you're not expected to understand this."  

>That comment applied to the bizarro aretu stuff, which went away in V7.  As
>with so many things, it was hard to understand because it was badly written.
>There's nothing particularly hard to understand about save/resume or newproc.

I seem to remember that to be a reference to the scheduler algorithm itself,
and how it interacts with the swapping mechanisms.  The V6 scheduler was
pretty awful.  save/resume and newproc weren't that hard to understand by
themselves.
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