John McIntosh wrote:
> I'll note the FreeBSD folks having been tinkering with their scheduler
for 
> example see http://www.slashdot.org/bsd

That's very interesting.  It sounds like the scheduling algorithm is
able to make some commitments about how much CPU time a particular
process will receive.  The argument seems to be that it's necessary for
real-time, or near real-time applications.

> Then again you could write a different scheduler and build your own VM
to do what you want.

Uggg...let me just add that to the pile of things to do.

- Stephen