Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!uwvax!David Parter From: david@rsch.wisc.edu (David Parter) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Scheduler blues Message-ID: <398@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 03:39:05 EST Article-I.D.: uwvax.398 Posted: Fri Nov 15 03:39:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Nov-85 09:14:16 EST References: <246@thunder.UUCP> Sender: david@uwvax.UUCP Organization: UWisc Systems Lab Lines: 23 > We have a very-heavily-loaded Vax here, and I am trying to figure out ways > of making it more usable, short of buying another one. One idea is to > rewrite the scheduler, so that time is allocated on a per-uid, instead of a > per-process basis. Has anybody done this to the kernel? see The Fair Share Scheduler G. J. Henry in Bell Labs Technical Journal vol 63, october 1984, number 8, part2. when the BLTJ came out, there was much discussion of the price (originally outragously high, then lowered), and how to order a single copy from ATT, but i do not remember now. david -- david parter UWisc Systems Lab uucp: ...!{allegra,harvard,ihnp4,seismo, topaz}!uwvax!david arpa: david@rsch.wisc.edu