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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: How to force a process into one CPU on a 6640?
- Message-ID: <01GU0MN0NAN6001HZW@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:52:40 GMT
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- Derek S. Haining, DEREK@MAX.U.WASHINGTON.EDU, writes:
-
- >YES! We have. Now, although I haven't looked in the solution provided by
- >Pekka, I did look into this technology quite a lot back in earlier versions
- >of VMS (T5.2 and some before this.) My thought was to be able to restrict
- >CPU-hogging batch jobs to a subset of the available CPUs, thus providing
- >better response time to the interactive users. (See, we could raise QUANTUM
- >up (good for a vector CPU) and not feel the effects of multiple batch jobs
- >so much.)
-
- I'm really looking forward to see how VMS V6.0's implementation of class
- scheduling is going to work with ideas like this. We could certainly take
- good advantage of it here. And in combined academic/administrative settings
- you could "allow" the students 10% of the CPU and all those administrative
- people the rest!! ;-)
-
- >Anyone read this far? :)
-
- ("It's the right one, baby.")
-
- "Uh-huh."
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
-