04-09-2013
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
The kernel's job, other than managing hardware, is mostly to stay out of the way while the application programs run. In most circumstances, the kernel spends next to no time running. There's only so far you can go with a 'hyper performance kernel' to make it actually faster.
You could do some interesting things with buffering and scheduling to make it more responsive I suppose.
interesting to know, i guess i'll see how things progress, so maybe a new distro it is
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Corona688
It's not like everyone else set out to write 'low performance' kernels, anyway.
very true
thankies again Corona
Last edited by donkey42; 04-09-2013 at 05:22 PM..
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NAME
guru - System administration
SYNOPSIS
guru [ -e program ] [ -f ] [ -p target ]
DESCRIPTION
guru is a sophisticated program synthesis and system maintenance tool developed after midnight in numerous university computing labs. It
is based on the famous LISP Hacker system, used to develop AI programs on TENEX. guru reads a problem description from the standard input.
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the bug. Feature enhancements run at high priority whereas critical problems are fixed only when the machine would otherwise be idle.
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ers, sundry games and the occasional diatribe.
OPTIONS
-e program
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dictably or not at all.
-f Reconstructs filesystems after a crash.
-p target
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If more than one option is specified, guru may thrash. Each copy of guru has its own set of unique, additional and undocumented options.
SEE ALSO
YAPS: Yet another Program Synthesiser by S C Johnson.
NOTES
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relevance and language of the occasional diatribe vary considerably.
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