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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]