Drawing from the communications world, services fall in one of two broad categories, immediate or deferred. Immediate communication services include teleconferencing, on-line chat, etc.; while ...

Modifying any part of the Linux kernel source code is usually a challenging task most software developers would prefer to avoid, composed as it is thousands of code lines divided by hundred of files.

Scheduling means different things depending on the audience. To many in the business world, scheduling is synonymous with workflow management. Workflow management is the coordinated execution of a ...

After typing “at” and the time the command should be run, at prompts you for the command to be run (in this case, the date command). Type ^D to complete your request. Assuming we set up this at ...

A new set of Linux scheduler features would allocate CPU time fairly among the users on the system. The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) was merged for the 2.6.23 kernel. One CFS feature which did not ...