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From: Borislav Deianov <borislav@ensim.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 18:51:40 -0700
To: jmcneil@interland.com
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Subject: Re: Lottery Scheduling?
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Hi Jeff,

In article <A49466227BF7D311BB6900508B92D72AFD2221@MSX1> you wrote:
> Has there been any effort to impliment a lottery scheduler (or something of
> the sort) under Linux?  I've searched on the web but wasn't able to find
> anything.  I've been working on my own, but don't see any reason to reinvent
> the wheel here, I'm sure it's been done before, probably better than I could
> do.

Have a look at http://fairsched.sourceforge.net. This is a fair
scheduler, it allows you to do hierarchical weighted CPU allocation.
Rik van Riel also wrote one, perhaps closer to what you describe, get
it from http://www.surriel.com/patches/ .

Regards,
Borislav

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