Re: Interesting scheduling times

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:50:04 +1000


yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu writes:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 07:47:28AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > I'd agree with you if the heavily loaded system was just doing
> > bog-standard time sharing. My concern is that if you are also trying
> > to control an instrument at the same time, the schedule/wakeup times
> > of the RT processes doesn't suffer because of the long run queue.
>
> The correct solution is RT-Linux or some variation,
> not mucking up the Linux interactive scheduler.

RT-Linux has it's own problems. And the change I proposed would not
"muck up" the Linux scheduler. It's actually quite a simple change.

Regards,

Richard....

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