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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:15:30 +0000
From: Wesley Felter <wesf@cs.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] File/cpu service provider
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in article 200006160020.RAA09589@ohio.river.org, Richard Uhtenwoldt at
ru@ohio.river.org wrote on 6/15/00 7:45 PM:

> I wish some enterprising Plan 9 hacker would
> sell accounts on an expertly-maintained Plan 9
> network and makes those accounts available via
> a reliable connection to the internet.  Per
> analogy with an "application service provider"
> (ASP), such an enterprising hacker would be a
> "Plan 9 file- and cpu-service provider" (9SP).

Speaking of ASPs and mutually hostile users, what kind of resource
management does Plan 9 have? Does it have some sort of hierachical CPU,
disk, and network scheduling? Does it overcommit VM?

I looked at the papers directory on the Web site, but nothing there looked
like it might answer these questions.

Wesley Felter - wesf@cs.utexas.edu - http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wesf/