Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!gatech!seismo!utah-cs!j From: j@utah-cs.UUCP (J Lepreau) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2bsd kernel auto-nicing, scheduling Message-ID: <3697@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 06:03:25 EST Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3697 Posted: Wed Feb 26 06:03:25 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 22:24:18 EST References: <1014@brl-smoke.ARPA> <669@frog.UUCP> Reply-To: j@utah-cs.UUCP (Jay Lepreau) Organization: University of Utah, Salt Lake City Lines: 6 Summary: Maryland claims to have a much better 4.2/4.3 scheduler In the Denver Usenix proceedings is a paper by Jeffrey Straathof et al of the Univ of Maryland which describes a new scheduler for BSD Unix which they claim is both much superior and much smaller than the 4.2 or 4.3 ones. I haven't yet read it, and didn't hear the talk. The address is Dept of Computer Science, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Now why haven't we heard from Chris Torek about this?