Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:03:07 +0200 | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | | Subject | Re: [resent PATCH] Re: very slow parallel read performance |
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Hi,
> Thinking about it a bit more, we also want to drop pages > from fast streams faster, to an extent, than we drop > them from slow streams (as well as dropping quite > a few pages at once), as these 'cost' more to replace.
what leads you to this conclusion ? A task that needs little time to process data it reads in is hurt much more by added latency due to a disk read.
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