Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler

myvirtualid writes "Con Kolivas has done what he swore never to do: returned to the Linux kernel and written a new — and, according to him — waaay better scheduler for the desktop environment. In fact, BFS appears to outperform existing schedulers right up until one hits a 16-CPU machine, at which point he guesses performance would degrade somewhat. According to Kolivas, BFS 'was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. i.e. [sic] it is a desktop orientated scheduler, with extremely low latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather than 'calculated,' with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability within normal load levels.'"

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Re:Glory!

[Anonymous Coward]

Shuttleworth just doesn't give the impression that he intends to be around to support Ubuntu. He is a business man. Ubuntu is a hobby which he could give up whenever he wants to (proof being, Canonical doesn't make money and Shuttleworth doesn't think it can make money anyway, according to his own words).
That doesn't prevent people to use Ubuntu, but that should...

Not so glorious, really

[Runaway1956]

It is pretty tough to maintain when the lead developer takes extended vacations with the Rough Riders and the Bitch Babies at their favorite hideaway Oh, for information, it seems that Hans is one of the bitch babies

I'm all worked up over what you think - NOT

[Zero__Kelvin]

"All people are occasionally idiots; this is forgivable. Being an asshole is not."

See, that is where you are wrong, as I have already forgiven you ;-)

In fact you are a major asshole if you think I care what you think of me. You might note my SlashID (and compare to yours) before trying to tell me how people are around here. There are many, many, many stupid, lying, or just plain moronic people here on Slashdot. Your naive if you think differently. When you deal with enough idiotic trolling assholes, it can make one somewhat of a jerk for the moment as well. I don't hide behind AC posts, but then I'm a grown man who owns up to my actions. Clearly, you haven't gotten there quite yet (based on your unsolicited and absurd "advice".)