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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: 4BSD process starvation during I/O
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:52:30AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> >Perhaps this can be tweaked.
> >
> >Kris
> >
> >P.S. Please, no responses about how maybe someone could write a new
> >scheduler that doesn't have this property.
> >
> >
> >=20
> >
> Can you try it again with FULL_PREEMPTION is turned on ?

OK.  Is this option believed to be "safe" (i.e. largely free from
bugs), and would it be useful to test more widely?

Kris


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