Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:16:26 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Scheduler: Process priority fed back to parent? |
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On Tue 16-03-04 14:49:41, Horst von Brand wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> said: > > [...] > > > This is something that I've thought of doing in the past. The reason I > > didn't pursue it further is that it's impossible to get it right for > > all cases, and it attacks the problem in the wrong place. The kernel > > shouldn't need to guess(timate) what the process is going to do. The > > userspace programmer, who knows what his process is going to do, > > should tell the kernel. > > People have been known to lie on occasion, particularly when it is to their > advantage...
You could heavily penalize process that lied... Or perhaps his user.
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