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Hi,
i am new to linux, i am curious to find out which part of the operating system is responsible for the scheduling?
How is the interface done, so as the scheduler gets the process as inputs?
Looking forward for the reply,thank you
Hi,
i am new to linux, i am curious to find out which part of the operating system is responsible for the scheduling?
How is the interface done, so as the scheduler gets the process as inputs?
Looking forward for the reply,thank you
Well I am not sure exactly what you mean but here goes. You have a daemon running in the background usually crond that will read its config file and then execute the scripts based on the time conditions given. There is another command known as AT that will let you schedule a one time task. I am not sure about an interface though. It really is just a config file.
Hi,
i am new to linux, i am curious to find out which part of the operating system is responsible for the scheduling?
How is the interface done, so as the scheduler gets the process as inputs?
Looking forward for the reply,thank you
The answer to this question is probably beyond the scope of this forum. Large volumes of research and numerous publications have gone into this topic over the years. A good place to start learning about the scheduler would be in sections of one of the following two introductory books:
Modern Operating Systems, by Andrew Tanenbaum http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educa...USS_01DBC.html. This is now in 3E, but not a lot changed. This book contains a general discussion of schedulers and scheduling algorithms.
Linux Kernel Development, by Robert Love http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-D.../dp/0672327201
This contains sections specifically on the Linux O(1) scheduler in 2.6+ kernels. The 1E version of this book deals with 2.4 prior, as I recall, so be sure to get the 2006 version.
Both of these texts are near canon, and should be available at public libraries, on the internet -- as handouts at any undergraduate computer science department welcoming session.
Wow I must have been really off on what I thought he was asking for. I think I need to quit answering questions as soon as I wake up. I thought he was refering to things like task scheduling.
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