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On Aug 1, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Chuck Norcutt
<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No performance impact at all if the system is lightly loaded.
> Performance has to be measured as system throughput after the system
> becomes overloaded. Without this change to the scheduler the system
> very quickly starts thrashing. It spends more time moving tasks in
> and
> out of virtual storage than it does performing useful work. The
> penalty
> for improved throughput is reduced responsiveness. But that really
> doesn't matter since reduced responsiveness will occur on its own as
> the
> system continues to thrash. So there really isn't any single answer
> to
> the question. As I recall the test scenarios showed a throughput
> improvement of about 20% within the testing range.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 8/1/2013 3:33 PM, Johnie Stafford wrote:
>> I read thru it real quick. Yikes, I see what you mean about the
>> wording. But
>> I think I understood it. Great idea. How significant was the
>> performance
>> boost?
>>
>> Johnie Stafford
>> McKinney, TX
>> jms@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 1:56 PM
>>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Publication rights question
>>>
>>> I have a single patent to my name
>>> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
>>> Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch
>>> -
>>> bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22International+Busines
>>> s+Machines%22.ASNM.&s2=Norcutt.INNM.&OS=AN/>
>>> It's assigned to IBM as owner (my employer at the time) but I and
>>> my two
>> co-
>>> inventors are listed as the inventors. I conceived the basic
>>> idea, Ted
>> Waldron
>>> did the really difficult task of implementing it in a real system
>>> and Khoa
>>> Huynh did the performance verification to prove that it really
>>> worked.
>> But it
>>> should be clear that IBM gave credit where due.
>>> Incidentally, if you read the patent and don't understand it don't
>>> be
>>> concerned. Even though the basic idea was mine I hardly
>>> understand the
>>> language of the patent myself after the patent attorney's got
>>> through with
>>> the wording. :-)
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/1/2013 10:50 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> A friend of mine saw my dragstrip sunset photo and suggested I
>>>>> submit
>>>>> it to Hot Rod Magazine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I looked at their website, and found the disclaimer for
>>>>> reader-submitted material. Essentially, if they use my photo, I
>>>>> sign
>>>>> over all rights to them, forever, and they can do whatever they
>>>>> want
>>>>> with it, wherever they want to, on whatever media they choose,
>>>>> including any media that might be invented sometime in the
>>>>> future. And
>> I
>>> get nothing in return.
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously, I'm not going to do that.
>>>>>
>>>>> My question however: Is that the norm?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sure is, and it's pretty much intellectual property theft by
>> extortion.
>>> You'd be amazed and the ways organizations and employers go about
>>> legally
>>> stealing intellectual property from individuals. I almost joined an
>> organization
>>> within the UofA agricultural co-op until I read the fine print of
>>> the
>> contract
>>> and saw in plain language that they had all rights to anything
>>> that you
>> came
>>> up with if you joined. And here I was, developing seasonally
>>> adjuasted
>>> powders that would duplicate the chemistry of natural rainfall for
>>> use in
>>> germinating native plant seeds.
>>>>
>>>> In Germany employers can not assume absolute ownership of the
>> ideas
>>> of employees. The employer has a limited time (two years, I
>>> think) in
>> which
>>> they can make use of the ideas, and after that all rights revert
>>> to the
>>> employee. And even if they do use the idea the employee remains
>>> as the
>>> inventor. Over here in the US employees are robbed of their ideas
>>> and
>>> promptly thrown out into the street. That happened to me once,
>>> and a
>>> number of subsequent employers tried but failed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
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