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SubjectRe: elevator-starvation-4 (2.2.14 && 2.3.42)
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 06:27:50AM -0800, Bruce Thompson wrote:
> That's the basic algorithm I learned in an OS course from my
> undergrad degree nearly 15 years ago, have I missed something major?

The fact that eventually can be too far in the future to matter. Just
try "cat /dev/zero >file". You'll have to wait until either your
partition fills or you hit the 2Gb limit before you can do anything.
This takes too long a while.

OG.

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