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Date:      Fri, 07 May 2004 11:03:47 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: low HZ value causes "Time Warp Bug" (re: this Puny Pentium2suddenly became 45% slower!)
Message-ID:  <409BA553.2030907@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040507165839.Q24428@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20040507005518.75B6A79004C@ws1-14.us4.outblaze.com> <20040507040852.GA78023@VARK.homeunix.com> <20040507165839.Q24428@gamplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans wrote:
[ ... ]
> The importance of scheduling is shown by the number of users who notice
> when it is broken: it is very small.

Aren't blocking system calls wonderful?  I suspect that problems with the 
scheduler don't matter nearly as much when you've often only got a handful of 
tasks which are runnable to choose from.

If one considers problem domains requiring multitasking between non-blocking 
tasks (realtime games seem to be a good example), you'd probably find 
scheduling much more important there...

-- 
-Chuck



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