Where are the self-tuning systems?

Re:Where are the self-tuning systems? by leoc on Sunday May 31, 2015 @05:04AM (#9633568)

Wasn't there a Linux kernel contributor with a medical background who used to push unsuccessfully for it to have more self-tuning/homeostatic behaviour? (It wasn't Greg Kroah-Hartmann was it?)

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Re:Where are the self-tuning systems? by bostik on Sunday May 31, 2015 @07:37AM (#9633857)

There was, but it's not Greg. He's still actively involved as a major maintainer (namely, the stable version releases).

You are thinking of Con Kolivas [0]. I remember when he was proposing a self-learning scheduler. The necessary feedback loop was considered far too brittle and the calculations both hard to reason about, as well as harder to understand.

There was also an awful lot of politics involved. I can't blame him for getting fed up.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas

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Re:Where are the self-tuning systems? by iopq on Sunday May 31, 2015 @09:56AM (#9634184)

He's also the author of CGminer, which is still the best cryptocurrency miner

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Re:Where are the self-tuning systems? by leoc on Sunday May 31, 2015 @10:55AM (#9634335)

That's the guy, thanks.

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