From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-reply-to: <20181009190942.3A402156E40C@mail.bitblocks.com>
References: <CAJQ9t7hZ6hcAoYVQc2_x74KShmdJjwvBc=ywEFK4CtNakxg0ig@mail.gmail.com>
	<CACo5X5jbw4QzFcAZ4O7Sv0oAC8OXhEGJ2_ark56kvUnQdSB49Q@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAFSF3XNza5Qp6L6d9+STMZQhyJ7HTeW627ZGKwU1L-bmWJ+sDw@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAOw7k5jKYh4+CoftCXNV_FnKEd8ZGi9x51bA_3AO=z7S1eedEw@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAFSF3XO7XYchOkBwEGUCXAcif7E0omKsHgk5QcKD9W8ewtQf9Q@mail.gmail.com>
	<CACo5X5iEzpQ=c8L1LXgFnNJ3RbJ==vZnvu7vPDOoeyn8ca-LdQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAEoi9W7zZwhQk9mPKRtBrGCZdmrCo3kPhJvDVm1h7H7cPdRwEg@mail.gmail.com>
	<20181009001435.B6DDA156E40C@mail.bitblocks.com>
	<7aa1f60316858415@orthanc.ca>
	<20181009190942.3A402156E40C@mail.bitblocks.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-ID: <77299.1539113421.1@orthanc.ca>
Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2018 12:30:21 -0700
Message-Id: <7aa1f6d215826bca@orthanc.ca>
Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!)
Topicbox-Message-UUID: e9f46f70-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

Bakul Shah writes:

And funny you should mention this!

> Some of this process/memory management can be delegated to
> user code as well.

At $DAYJOB we would really like to have application process control
over the kernel scheduler, as this seems to be the only realistic
way to avoid the (kernel) resource starvation issues we run into.

Our back end servers don't go down often.  But when they do, it's for
reasons entirely out of our control.  Because those resource allocation
policies have been pushed into the kernel, and beyond our control.


--lyndon