Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 1999 17:22:06 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Prioritized I/O |
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David Olofson writes: > Rogier Wolff wrote: > (...Latency...) > > Larry, to solve the problem that you brought up, how about > > artificially increasing the priority of the write requests with the > > urgency that we need the memory. Would that work? > > What about doing the same thing as all recording systems with > swapping to disk should do: Use a separate drive for recording. Or > just don't use any swap. You can't have it all at the same > time... unless you can stand that extra disk, that is. ;-)
Exactly! I know it can seem "nice" that a FS could prioritise access, but is it really worth the drama? Dedicating a disc to a high priority task seems much simpler and robust.
Regards,
Richard.... Old: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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