As another Vietnam Vet, Welcome HOme Aaron.

Bill Anderson
WW7BA

John B Pace wrote:
> Welcome home! We got a lot of dirty looks just by being in during
> Vietnam, so I go out of my way to welcome vets home...so once again,
> Welcome Home"
> 
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
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