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Re:Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust by LeFantome on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:00AM (#37323188)
This is a reasonable point. With containerization and the cloud, this abstraction is taken even further.

In the end though, all this really does is perhaps change how aggressive a pre-emptive system needs to be. It could wait longer to pre-empt. Fundamentally though, the design would still need to be pre-emptive.

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Re:Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust by treis on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:42AM (#37323861)
I don't think it needs to be system pre-emptable. If we reserve 1 core for the OS then the user can always interact with the system. The OS can tell them "App X has pegged the 15 userland cores. Do you wish to kill it?".

In practice, I'm not sure how relevant pre-empting is any more. Software is much better behaved than it used to and I rarely see these runaway processes anymore. And when they do it's usually pegging a single core at 100% while other processes share the remaining core.

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