Linux: The Completely Fair Scheduler
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| He explained, "this project is a complete rewrite of the Linux
| task scheduler. My goal is to address various feature requests
| and to fix deficiencies in the vanilla scheduler that were
| suggested/found in the past few years, both for desktop
| scheduling and for server scheduling workloads."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/8059
Linux: Comparing New CPU Schedulers
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| "I think that CFS is based on a more promising concept but is less mature
| and is dangerous right now with certain workloads..."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/8082
Related:
Diebold quietly repaired voting machines
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| The unpredictable freezes don't cause votes to be lost, officials
| said, but they confuse voters and election judges who sometimes
| wonder whether votes cast on a frozen [Windows] machine will be counted.
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| [...]
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| Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in
| several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a
| "screen-freeze" problem the company had discovered three years
| earlier, according to published reports Thursday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_hi_te/voting_machines
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