Back in early November 2001, I started following a discussionbetween two factions of the Linux kernel community. The gist of thediscussion was over what was the best solution to the Linux ...

The default Linux scheduler (SCHED_OTHER) uses a time-sharing approach, ensuring fairness by dynamically adjusting process priorities. This project explores the implementation of an alternative ...

Bugs in the Linux scheduler can cause performance degradation in heavily multithreaded loads, but a do-it-yourself fix is available The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a multicore ...

The new Linux 6.6 kernel is now available, integrating an array of updated capabilities that will impact workstation, server and cloud deployments. Among the improvements that are part of Linux 6.6 ...

As work began on the 2.5 Linux kernel tree back in December 2001, there was a lot of talk in the community about scaling. Linux had begun to appear in some of the roles traditionally filled by larger ...

This web page is an update to the textbook Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction by Max Hailperin. Chapter 3 of that text concerns scheduling, and it includes a ...

Linus Torvalds says that claims by C++ game developer Malte Skarupke that his spinlocks experiments had discovered the Linux kernel had a scheduler issue were garbage. Torvalds said the whole post ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The next release of the Linux kernel will apparently gain ...

A simple script to automate chmod permissions for specified directories on a Linux system. It runs periodically to apply chmod -R 777 to all paths listed in a configuration file. Paste the following ...