scheduling

I'm looking to make a 3-column layout similar to that of piccsy.com . Given a number of images of the same width but varying height, what is a algorithm to order them so that the difference in column lengths is minimal? Ideally in Python or JavaScript... Thanks a lot for your help in advance! Martin How many images? If you limit the maximum page size, and have a value for the minimum picture height, you can calculate the maximum number of images per page. You would need this when evaluating any solution. I think there were 27 pictures on the link you gave. The following uses the first_fit

I'm trying to understand how Linux handles process scheduling and thread scheduling. I read that Linux can schedule both processes and threads. Does Linux have a thread scheduler AND a process scheduler? If yes, how do they cooperate? The Linux kernel scheduler is actually scheduling tasks, and these are either threads or (single-threaded) processes. So a task (a task_struct inside the kernel), in the context of the scheduler, is the thing being scheduled, and can be some kernel thread like kworker or kswapd , some user thread of a multi-threaded process (like firefox ), or the single-thread

When using the Spring 3.0 capability to annotate a scheduled task, I would like to set the fixedDelay as parameter from my configuration file, instead of hard-wiring it into my task class, like currently... @Scheduled(fixedDelay = 5000) public void readLog() { ... } Unfortunately it seems that with the means of the Spring Expression Language (SpEL) @Value returns a String object which in turn is not able to be auto-boxed to a long value as required by the fixedDelay parameter. I guess the @Scheduled annotation is out of question. So maybe a solution for you would be to use task-scheduled XML

Title sums it up, I know little about how I will do this. See also: PHP: running scheduled jobs (cron jobs) Have you ever looked at ATrigger ? A PHP library is also available to create scheduled tasks without overhead. Disclaimer: I'm among their team. The best method for scheduled tasks is beanstalkd with delayed put. Use your operating system's scheduled tasks facility. crontab on unix, scheduled tasks on windows. Then we have some more considerations: Do you want to schedule tasks through a PHP script that adds stuff to the main OS way to schedule tasks? or Do you want to have a long