a serious error in sched_ule.c?

[Wes Peters]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:29:54 +0100 des at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) alleged:

> Wes Peters <wes at softweyr.com> writes:
> > One of the classic trade-offs in making a 'server' vs. 'workstation'
> > operating system.  Workstations require a strong preference for
> > interactive over background tasks so the interactive tasks will
> > remain responsive, especially in terms of heavily event-driven tasks
> > like graphical UIs.  For a true server, where interactive tasks are
> > not the norm, this preference may be counter-productive.
> 
> Umm, remember that "interactive" here means "performs I/O", even if
> that I/O is a database lookup or a TCP connection.

Sigh.  Nobody really does compute-bound tasks anymore, do they?  I really
miss "scientific programming."

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com