Re: Interesting scheduling times

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:41:54 -0400 (EDT)


Larry McVoy writes:

>. We've pointed him at a benchmark that doesn't have the same problems.

That one has other problems: it has nothing to do with real-time.
In his case, processes can starve. The starvation makes his efforts
interesting.

Perhaps you could point him at a benchmark with real-time processes.

>. His defense is completely unreasonable, both from a statistical
> point of view (consider his standard deviation)

So he needs to run it longer. No problem.

>. While it would be nice for Richard if someone dissected his benchmark,
> the people who can have already pruned that branch of the tree as
> uninteresting, i.e., no payoff.

No payoff UNLESS you run real-time processes.

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