Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:57:30 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFT] simple deadline I/O scheduler |
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > Would it be possible to introduce concept of I/O priority? I.e. I want > > updatedb not to load disk if I need it for something else? > > makes sense to me. actually, VM is another place where priority > could be quite useful - for instance, how hard the VM scavenges > a proc's pages. oops, there I go advocating a tunable... > > VM_SWAP_ME_HARDER anyone?
This seems to work very badly, making one process swap more means it pagefaults more and sucks up more IO bandwidth ;)
regards,
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