[ANNOUNCE] - AKT project

[ANNOUNCE] - AKT project

[Derbey Nadia]

I'm announcing last version of the libtune API, that has been developped 
to unify the way developers have to access Linux kernel tunables, system 
information, resource consumptions.

User documentation can be found at http://akt.sf.net/doc/aktapi.doc.01.html

Design documentation can be found at 
http://akt.sf.net/doc/aktapi.design.07.html

The sources can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136028

Next step of the project will consist in making the kernel able to tune 
the resources as it sees appropriate.

Any comment is welcome.
Please CC-me since I'm not subscribed.

Regards,
Nadia

Re: [ANNOUNCE] - AKT project

[Bill Davidsen]

Derbey Nadia wrote:
> I'm announcing last version of the libtune API, that has been developped 
> to unify the way developers have to access Linux kernel tunables, system 
> information, resource consumptions.
> 
> User documentation can be found at http://akt.sf.net/doc/aktapi.doc.01.html
> 
> Design documentation can be found at 
> http://akt.sf.net/doc/aktapi.design.07.html
> 
> The sources can be downloaded from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136028
> 
> Next step of the project will consist in making the kernel able to tune 
> the resources as it sees appropriate.

The reason for having tunables is so the admin can get the behaviour 
desired. Since the kernel can't really know which behaviour to optimize 
this would wind up being the kernel tuning itself to your (someone's) 
idea of better. That may be great for some newbie, but honestly the 
default values put in by the developers are satisfactory in most cases.

I hope "as it sees appropriate" isn't really what you mean...

-- 
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"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
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