Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:57:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: elevator-starvation-4 (2.2.14 && 2.3.42) |
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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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