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Linux Process Management: Process Scheduling

The Linux Process Manager

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470847719/qid=1147205317/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/103-5013889-3208609?n=283155

The Linux Process Manager by John O'Gorman

"Introduction to Linux Process Scheduling"

http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS01/OS/Lectures/Lecture08.pdf

Lecture slides: "Introduction to Linux Process Scheduling."

"Process Scheduling in Linux"

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kraatika/Courses/sem02a/lps-slides.pdf

Lecture slides: "Process Scheduling in Linux" by Zhao Xiaodong.

"The Linux Process Scheduler"

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=101760&rl=1

Article: "The Linux Process Scheduler" from the book, Linux Kernel Development, by Robert Love. Topics include I/O-bound versus processor-bound processes, process priority, timeslice, process preemption, and the scheduling policy in action.

"Process Scheduling"

http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=Tutorial&pageid=85

Tutorial: "Process Scheduling" discusses the two functions used in process scheduling: the schedule() function and the do_timer() function that updates the times of the processes.

"Linux Process Scheduling"

http://www.iamexwi.unibe.ch/studenten/schlpbch/linuxScheduling/LinuxScheduling.html

Tutorial: "Linux Process Scheduling" by Andreas Schlapbach. Topics include scheduling concepts used by Linux, Linux scheduling—the code, and time accounting.

"Process Scheduling"

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/chapter/ch10.html

Sample chapter: "Process Scheduling" from the book, Understanding the Linux Kernel, by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati. Topics include scheduling policy, the scheduling algorithm, system calls related to scheduling, and anticipating Linux 2.4.