Re: low HZ value causes "Time Warp Bug" (re: this Puny Pentium2suddenly became 45% slower!)

From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 11:03:47 -0400
Bruce Evans wrote:
[ ... ]
> The importance of scheduling is shown by the number of users who notice
> when it is broken: it is very small.

Aren't blocking system calls wonderful?  I suspect that problems with the 
scheduler don't matter nearly as much when you've often only got a handful of 
tasks which are runnable to choose from.

If one considers problem domains requiring multitasking between non-blocking 
tasks (realtime games seem to be a good example), you'd probably find 
scheduling much more important there...

-- 
-Chuck
Received on Fri May 07 2004 - 06:03:57 UTC

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