Fwd: Re: Use of AI for process scheduling

[Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>]

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On Monday 08 September 2003 18:56, you wrote:
> Well, we have this to deal with:  Someone is exercising the scheduler
> and notices some kind of misscheduling which causes the system to crawl.
>
> How are they going to get to the /proc and /sys directories to do much
> of anything?  The system is completely unresponsive.  Furthermore, even
> if the system IS responsive, we need some way to for the user to hit a
> key and freeze the current state for examination.  Some slow-downs last
> only seconds, but we need to be able to catch them.

Agreed.

> You talk about weights.  Would the linux community be willing to put a
> neural net into the kernel?  I'm sure we could optimize it to not take a
> lot of processing overhead, but it's an "unknown".  It would be scary to
> some people to be unable to disect the actual workings of it and have no
> way of determining corner-case behavior from examining code.  But if we
> have, say, only a 2-layer neural net, we might still be able to
> reverse-engineer it.

I meant weights in a more general way - variables in calculations is more
appropriate. Neural nets can do a lot of interesting things, but they really
need optimization. If we were to use them, we should make it a config option
in the kernel (nnet or standard scheduler.)

Jeff.

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