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Programming Interfaces Guide     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Memory and CPU Management

2.  Session Description Protocol API

3.  Process Scheduler

Overview of the Scheduler

Time-Sharing Class

System Class

Real-time Class

Interactive Class

Fair-Share Class

Fixed-Priority Class

Commands and Interfaces

priocntl Usage

priocntl Interface

Interactions With Other Interfaces

Kernel Processes

Using fork and exec

Using nice

init(1M)

Scheduling and System Performance

Process State Transition

4.  Locality Group APIs

5.  Input/Output Interfaces

6.  Interprocess Communication

7.  Socket Interfaces

8.  Programming With XTI and TLI

9.  Packet Filtering Hooks

10.  Transport Selection and Name-to-Address Mapping

11.  Real-time Programming and Administration

12.  The Oracle Solaris ABI and ABI Tools

A.  UNIX Domain Sockets

Index

Chapter 3

Process Scheduler

This chapter describes the scheduling of processes and how to modify scheduling.

The chapter is for developers who need more control over the order of process execution than default scheduling provides. See Multithreaded Programming Guide for a description of multithreaded scheduling.