Cool. Great results. Thrashing does tend to have an order of magnitude
greater effect that most other OS performance issues. Would have made for an
interesting discussion for my OS Theory class in college.
Johnie Stafford
McKinney, TX
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> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 7:12 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Publication rights question
>
> No performance impact at all if the system is lightly loaded.
> Performance has to be measured as system throughput after the system
> becomes overloaded. Without this change to the scheduler the system very
> quickly starts thrashing. It spends more time moving tasks in and out of
> virtual storage than it does performing useful work. The penalty for
> improved throughput is reduced responsiveness. But that really doesn't
> matter since reduced responsiveness will occur on its own as the system
> continues to thrash. So there really isn't any single answer to the
question.
> As I recall the test scenarios showed a throughput improvement of about
> 20% within the testing range.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 8/1/2013 3:33 PM, Johnie Stafford wrote:
> > I read thru it real quick. Yikes, I see what you mean about the
> > wording. But I think I understood it. Great idea. How significant was
> > the performance boost?
> >
> > Johnie Stafford
> > McKinney, TX
> > jms@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 1:56 PM
> >> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> >> Subject: Re: [OM] Publication rights question
> >>
> >> I have a single patent to my name
> >> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
> >>
> Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch
> >> -
> >>
> bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22International+Busines
> >> s+Machines%22.ASNM.&s2=Norcutt.INNM.&OS=AN/>
> >> It's assigned to IBM as owner (my employer at the time) but I and my
> >> two
> > co-
> >> inventors are listed as the inventors. I conceived the basic idea,
> >> Ted
> > Waldron
> >> did the really difficult task of implementing it in a real system and
> >> Khoa Huynh did the performance verification to prove that it really
> worked.
> > But it
> >> should be clear that IBM gave credit where due.
> >> Incidentally, if you read the patent and don't understand it don't be
> >> concerned. Even though the basic idea was mine I hardly understand
> >> the language of the patent myself after the patent attorney's got
> >> through with the wording. :-)
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
> >>
> >>
> >> On 8/1/2013 10:50 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> A friend of mine saw my dragstrip sunset photo and suggested I
> >>>> submit it to Hot Rod Magazine.
> >>>>
> >>>> I looked at their website, and found the disclaimer for
> >>>> reader-submitted material. Essentially, if they use my photo, I
> >>>> sign over all rights to them, forever, and they can do whatever
> >>>> they want with it, wherever they want to, on whatever media they
> >>>> choose, including any media that might be invented sometime in the
> >>>> future. And
> > I
> >> get nothing in return.
> >>>>
> >>>> Obviously, I'm not going to do that.
> >>>>
> >>>> My question however: Is that the norm?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Sure is, and it's pretty much intellectual property theft by
> > extortion.
> >> You'd be amazed and the ways organizations and employers go about
> >> legally stealing intellectual property from individuals. I almost
> >> joined an
> > organization
> >> within the UofA agricultural co-op until I read the fine print of the
> > contract
> >> and saw in plain language that they had all rights to anything that
> >> you
> > came
> >> up with if you joined. And here I was, developing seasonally
> >> adjuasted powders that would duplicate the chemistry of natural
> >> rainfall for use in germinating native plant seeds.
> >>>
> >>> In Germany employers can not assume absolute ownership of the
> > ideas
> >> of employees. The employer has a limited time (two years, I think)
> >> in
> > which
> >> they can make use of the ideas, and after that all rights revert to
> >> the employee. And even if they do use the idea the employee remains
> >> as the inventor. Over here in the US employees are robbed of their
> >> ideas and promptly thrown out into the street. That happened to me
> >> once, and a number of subsequent employers tried but failed.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Chris
> >>>
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