> The problem with these things it that sometimes such a task may hold
> a lock, which can prevent higher-priority tasks from running.
>
true ... three ideas:
- a sort of temporary priority elevation (the opposite of SCHED_YIELD)
as long as the process holds some lock
- automatically schedule t
hi there,
i found, that linux is missing a static low-priority scheduling class
(or did i miss something? in this case feel free to stomp me into the
ground :). it would be ideal for typical number-crunchers running in
the background like the different distributed.net-like clients.
within this c
> Anybody interested in the ~100 anti-spam regexps I'm using
> on NL.linux.org at the moment ?
>
there is a much simpler method:
drop any mail, which does not contain the address of the mailing list
in To: or Cc:.
Bcc: mails (who wants to post with a bcc legitimately?) and bulk
mailers (which do
> > remember quarterdeck's quickreboot from "good" (*cough*) old D{o|O}S
> > days? here it is for linux! it's only of limited use, especially
> > in it's current state, but some people might find it useful.
>
> Hmm, I'm probably going to apply this one, as I hate behaviour of my
> bios: if you po
hi there,
remember quarterdeck's quickreboot from "good" (*cough*) old D{o|O}S
days? here it is for linux! it's only of limited use, especially
in it's current state, but some people might find it useful.
the first patch is the kernel patch. note, that it makes qreboot the
default, if you specif
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