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> 2. making the kernel able to automatically tune the resources as it sees 
> appropriate. This is a much more complicated feature that will be 
> considered as a second step for the project

You might be interested in the work Jacob Moilanen has been doing with 
genetic algorithm tuning of I/O and CPU schedulers.  Google will 
probably turn up some discussion on this.  Also, he is scheduled to give 
a presentation and paper on this topic at the Ottawa Linux Symposium in 
July.