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- From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
- Subject: Re: Things I Wish Were In MINIX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.153536.10730@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:35:36 GMT
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- bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Abendschan) writes:
-
-
- >Yes, I know, this is unsolicited, but these things have been gnawing at
- >me.
-
- >* a "nice" command [or some way of increasing or decreasing command
- >priorities] .. this would be handy for cron and background tasks in
- >general.. so a backup called from cron doesn't slow the whole system to
- >a crawl [hypothetical.. I don't have another drive in which to back
- >MINIX upon!]
-
- Look for a package named kub-scheduler or sysupd2 at your favourite
- Minix archive. It gives you a much better scheduler (no more
- coffee-breaks after ls, if something is running in the background :-),
- a nice command and the profil system call.
-
- >* faster i/o. anything that goes to stderr seems to run much slower
- >than the rest of the text.. I have heard vague and unconfirmed rumors
- >about an "enhanced" stdio program which speeds reads & writes up a bit,
- >but, given my luck, it won't work on MacMINIX.
-
- It is called estdio, and I see no reason why it shouldn't work with
- MacMinix. The version I have (and am not entirely happy
- with) is 2.3. I have read that there is a newer version but I haven't
- seen it anywhere yet. You could also use any of the public domain stdio
- implementations floating around on the net.
-
- >Also, why do exec and
- >system calls take so long to execute the program? Even with both
- >absolute filenames and caching, it still takes a long time.. why?
-
- Good question.
-
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