Re: Fairness in love and swapping

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > fil_dsc - number of file descriptors (if it has loads of
> >           file descriptors, it communicates a lot with the environment
> >           and is less likely a batch process)
> 
> At shell they have 3D datasets. 
> 
> They store them in an "array of 2D files". That way you can do:
> 
>          (echo "P5";echo 230 500;cat file24) | xv -
> 
> A program processing these e.g. in 2D, but then along a different axis
> as over here, would have all 300 files open at the same time.......

OK, we could take the number of non-file file descriptors.
The number of network connections (to not-self) is usually
a good indication of program interaction. The number of
network I/Os also is a good bonus.

Rik.
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