Nick Piggin wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> 
>> R. J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 26 of July 2004 12:29, Con Kolivas wrote:
>>>
> 
>>>> I think one knob is one knob too many already.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you please tell me why do you think so?
>>
>>
>>
>> If you wanna discuss pedantics...
>>
>> In my ideal, nonsensical, impossible to obtain world we have an 
>> autoregulating operating system that doesn't need any knobs.
>>
> 
> Some thinks are fundamental tradeoffs that can't be autotuned.
> 
> Latency vs throughput comes up in a lot of places, eg. timeslices.
> 
> Maximum throughput via effective use of swap, versus swapping as
> a last resort may be another.

As I said... it was ideal, nonsensical, and impossible. Doesn't sound 
like you're arguing with me.

Con