Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:41:31 -0500 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: elevator-starvation-4 (2.2.14 && 2.3.42) |
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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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