Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:31:51AM -0800, george anzinger wrote:
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > What I think we need is a kind of interval real-time scheduling.
> > Something like:
> >         The system has a basic timing period of N milliseconds where
> >         N is at lease 500 and probably more.
> > 
> >         Over a N millisecond period each process gets a full scheduling quantum
> >         and, if it requests, a full I/O quantum.
> >         For a niced process there is some calculated interval greater than
> >         N. An I/O quantum should correspond somehow to a rate of I/0.
> > 
> >         RTLIMIT is used to set the max number of processes allowed to start
> >         and this determines the computation length of "one quantum"
> 
> Have you looked at SCHED_SPORADIC (see 1003.1d-1999)?

Yes, but I don't think it does much - although its description is quite
long and complex.