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Tuning The Kernel With A Genetic Algorithm
fsck! writes "Jake Moilanen provided a series of four patches against the 2.6.9 Linux kernel that introduce a simple genetic algorithm used for automatic tuning. The patches update the anticipatory IO scheduler and the zaphod CPU scheduler to both use the new in-kernel library, theoretically allowing them to automatically tune themselves for the best possible performance for any given workload. Jake says, 'using these patches, there are small gains (1-3%) in Unixbench & SpecJBB. I am hoping a scheduler guru will able to rework them to give higher gains.'"
WTF was that? Some damned codec that neither quicktime nor windows media player understands, that's what.
Which means that you proved your point beautifully -- people who use linux for a desktop often have absolutely no idea what the rest of the world does with computers.