Determinism is defined "The philosophical doctrine that every state of
affairs, including every human event, act, and decision is the
inevitable consequence of antecedent states of affairs."

In relation to scheduling, deterministic typically means that if you
were given a number of previous actions then you can predict 100% the
next action the scheduler will take.  Non-deterministic schedulers can
have some advantage over deterministic schedulers, such as a lower
overhead, and a different take on 'fairness'.

-Adam


MSullivan wrote:

>what do you mean by deterministic ?
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>>The approach I'm using is deterministic (probably because of years in
>>process control), and really won't work well if you have great long
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