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Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:27:58 -0400
From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Con Kolivas wrote:
>>For this, I reiterate my suggestion to intentionally over-shoot the
>>mark.  If you do it right, a process will run an inappropriate length of
>>time only every other time slice until the oscillation dies down.
> 
> 
> Your thoughts are fine, and to some degree I do what you're proscribing, but I 
> take into account the behaviour of real processes in the real world and their 
> effect on scheduling fairness.

And I know you know a lot more about how real processes behave than I 
do.  I'm not saying (or thinking) anything negative about you.  I'm just 
trying to throw random thoughts into the mix just in case some small 
part of what I say is useful inspiration for someone else such as yourself.

It is probably the case that the idea I suggest is BS and makes no real 
difference or makes it worse anyhow.  :)

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