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On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:29 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: > > Where do you work? > > I recently returned from a year in Baghdad with E Company, > 1-125th Infantry Battalion, so not anywhere at the moment. > The rest of the Bn just got mobilized for about 9 months > in Kuwait. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Aaron Kulkis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:46 AM > > To: Kain, Becki (B.) > > Subject: Re: [opensuse] Top/lsof > > > > Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: > >> Or it means that the first process never says "i'm finished, you can > >> swap me out". > > > > There's no mechanism for that, other than the sleep(2) > > system call. The other ways that the process gives up > > the CPU are > > 1: waiting for resources (such as opening or reading > > a file, executing a wait(2) to collect the exit codes > > of child processes, etc). > > 2: The time-slice timer runs out, and the process is > > forcibly interrupted, and execution is given to the > > process schedulre. > > > > What you're thinking of is the cooperative multi-tasking > > model (pre OS X Macs would be a good example). > > > > I suggest you get "The Design of the Unix Operating System". > > I believe the author's name is Maurice J. Bach. > > > > Yes, here we go: > > <http://www.amazon.com/Design-Unix-Operating-System-Hardcover/dp/B000M85 > > BS6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200475812&sr=8-2> > > > > $15.00 is an excellant price. My copy of the previous > > edition cost by around $85.00 > > > > While this is the Unix operating system, not Linux, > > the general principles of the process scheduler still > > appply, because the Unix process scheduler is the > > definition of the expected behavior -- therefore, Linux > > imitates it almost exactly (except that Linux can have > > real-time processes, and circa 1990 Unix did not). > > > >> > >> It's not a desktop, it's just a web server. Where are you, that > > you're > >> 30 miles from deaborn? Just curious > > > > I'm in Royal Oak. > > > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
