Re: What are the VM motivations??

From: "Mark H. Wood" <mwood@IUPUI.Edu>
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Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What are the VM motivations??
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 18:58:06 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107011850350.7115-100000@mhw.ULib.IUPUI.Edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B34FADC.E73ACFC6@ameritech.net>

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, watermodem wrote:
[snip interior quotes]
> Would never work with the ac-series.  Not enough time
> to form a neural pattern between builds.  There is
> a semi-prior art here.  Unix on the Tandem (now Compaq)
> Helix shipped (and maybe still does) with a Neural Net
> for system sanity and tuning.  Only problem is that
> the learning period usually exceeds the average time
> between installing releases (communications customers).
> 8^)

For a less ambitious approach that worked fairly well for a lot of sites
(including mine) see also VMS Autogen.  It was nice, having a mechanical
"expert" looking over my shoulder, making suggestions, double-checking my
ideas, etc.  One run a week was usually enough to tune a system pretty
well, for a general timesharing/batch/modest services load.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Make a good day.