Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:48:17 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Interactivity improvements |
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Patrick McLean <pmclean@cs.ubishops.ca> [2003-08-07]: >> Another point is compilers, they tend to do a lot of disk I/O then >> become major CPU hogs, could we have some sort or heuristic that reduces >> the bonuses for sleeping on block I/O rather than other kinds of I/O >> (say pipes and network I/O in the case of X).
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Richard Curnow wrote: > What about compilers chewing on source files coming in over NFS rather > than resident on local block devices? The network waits need to be > broken out into NFS versus other, or UDP versus TCP or something. e.g. > waits due to the user not having typed anything yet, or moved the mouse, > are going to be on TCP connections.
I'd be interested in whatever you come up with for this, as I use NFSS a lot.
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