[PLUG] Re: [lug] Process Scheduling in Linux: Still Room for Improvement

[Rick Crelia]

John S. posted this a couple of days ago, but with a
start time of 3:30. Your note looks like it reflects a
time change. Is that the case?

--rc


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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:52:31PM -0700, Rogan Creswick spake thusly:
> Sorry for the late notice about this talk:
> 
> Who: Rick Lindsley
> When: Thursday May 22, 5pm
> Where: Owen 101, Oregon State University
> Sponsored by: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
> Bio: Rick Lindsley is a software engineer with 20 years experience in Unix
> and
> Linux. He's worked on everything from Berkeley 4.2 and 4.3 releases to
> Solaris to, now, Linux. He spent several years at Tektronix in Beaverton,
> Oregon, then gained significant experience with multi-processor machines
> while working for Sequent Computer Systems for nine years. When Sequent
> was purchased by IBM in 1999, he stayed on board and joined IBM's Linux
> team. He's currently working in the Linux Technology Center for IBM in
> Beaverton Oregon. Since then he's given talks at universities, national
> laboratories, and Linux user groups on topics ranging from what it's like
> to work for IBM, to issues with SMP locking, to the current state of the
> Linux kernel. His recent focus is on I/O statistics gathering and process
> scheduling improvements.