E&S CVS Commit: PEAK - Adjustments to scheduling algorithms. Tasks are now more sensitive to

[pje at eby-sarna.com]

Module Name:	PEAK
Committed By:	pje
Date:		Wed Apr 16 15:13:18 UTC 2003

Modified Files:
	PEAK/src/peak/running: scheduler.py

Log Message:
Adjustments to scheduling algorithms.  Tasks are now more sensitive to
their priority, to better match MetaDaemon "greedy" approach.  Before this
adjustment, only tasks that were behind schedule for execution were
prioritized, and they were run one after another with no opportunity for
high priority tasks to "jump back to the head of the line".  Now, if a
high priority task is rescheduled before an earlier-scheduled low priority
task, it *will* jump to the head of the line, and thus starve lower
priority tasks until it becomes idle again.

The other adjustment made was to fix a problem where an idle timeout might
not be detected until the system had been idle for up to twice the timeout.
The idleness-checker now schedules itself to rerun at the earliest possible
moment of timeout, instead of waiting another full idle checking interval.


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