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SubjectRe: elevator-starvation-4 (2.2.14 && 2.3.42)
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Bruce Thompson wrote:

>Sorry, but I must respectfully disagree. The time to service the
>request specifically is _not_ unbounded, it's bounded by the size of
>the disk.

Oh of course. I perfectly know this. But waiting 2 days for the output
`ls` is too a long time for me. And yes in 2.3.43 and 2.2.14 without my
fixes you can really wait 2 days.

>In general I would assert that the probability of the user process
>swamping the driver in this manner is extremely low, or else the

It's high instead. Precisely it was used to happened to me each time I was
closing a big mail folder like l-k after changing it.

Andrea


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