Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

yodaiken
2002-01-20T14:35:38Z

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:31:51AM -0800, george anzinger wrote:
> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > What I think we need is a kind of interval real-time scheduling.
> > Something like:
> > The system has a basic timing period of N milliseconds where
> > N is at lease 500 and probably more.
> >
> > Over a N millisecond period each process gets a full scheduling quantum
> > and, if it requests, a full I/O quantum.
> > For a niced process there is some calculated interval greater than
> > N. An I/O quantum should correspond somehow to a rate of I/0.
> >
> > RTLIMIT is used to set the max number of processes allowed to start
> > and this determines the computation length of "one quantum"
>
> Have you looked at SCHED_SPORADIC (see 1003.1d-1999)?

Yes, but I don't think it does much - although its description is quite
long and complex.