esep esep (Evolution Scheduling and Evolving Processes) is an evolution scheduler, based on genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming. esep shows the concepts of evolution scheduling, which will provide us with a better scheduling mechanism for competing processes in the ready queue and even the blocked queue. The evolution scheduling is acceptable for the real-time system and useful for its performance to achieve fair and effective scheduling. In the comparison of queue dispatching and process dispatching of the evolution scheduler with other ones of existing schedulers, round robin, priority, and even FIFO scheduling, we can confidently conclude that where we use the round robin, priority, and even FIFO scheduling, we can imple- ment evolution scheduling to substitute for them without warning the application programmers to change their expectation of the scheduling controls. On the other hand, for those who pursue evolutionary computation, this is good news. It allows them to carry out natural competition in an easy way consistent with their operating system and programming language. Each evolving process, one with the ability to improve its adaptation to the environment, reflects on the CPU usage rate and I/O throughput load with its fitness function, and the evolution scheduler elaborates the optimization winner for the next quantum. So there are many benefits for both scheduler designers and evolutionary programmers.

Current Version:   1.4 License Type:   GPL

Home Site: http://www.iit.edu/~linjinl/esep.html Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   No Other Packages:   No Targeted Platforms: Linux 2.0.30, or later Software/Hardware Requirements: Linux kernel source for rebuilding the kernel

Other Links: http://www.iit.edu/~linjinl/paper3.html (a paper to declare how Evolution Scheduling and Evolving Processes work) http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel (Linux kernel source) Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: news:comp.os.linux.announce User Comments: None See A Screen Shot?

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