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The Completely Fair Scheduler

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-always-late dept.

hichetu writes "Kernel trap has a nice summary of what is going on behind the scenes to change the Linux Scheduler. The O(1) Linux scheduler is going to be changed so that it is fair to interactive tasks. You will be surprised to know that O(1) is really too good not to have any side-effects on fairness to all tasks."

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  1. Re:Isnt this called Cron ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Coming up with an idea (even if totally made up) and the backing it up with arguments is much harder than memorization and regurgitation and actually backing it up with things having to do with that class shows you have learned something, or at least know about the concepts discussed in the class.