In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Could you explain for the audience the technical definition of fairness > and what sorts of error metrics are commonly used? There seems to be > some disagreement, and you're neutral enough of an observer that your > statement would help.
And while we are at it, why it is a good thing. I could understand that fair means no missbehaving (intentionally or unintentionally) application can harm the rest of the system. However a responsive desktop might not necesarily be very fair to compute jobs. Even a simple thing as "who gets accounted" can be quite different in different workloads. (larger multi user systems tend to be fair based on the user, on servers you more balance by thread or job and single user systems should be as unfair as the user wants them as long as no process can "run away") Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
