Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:14:53 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 07:46:54PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Finally, I doubt that any of this will address my biggest problem with > Linux, which is that as memory gets cheap a program doing significant disk > writing can get buffers VERY full (perhaps a while CD worth) before the > kernel decides to do the write, at which point the system becomes > non-responsive for seconds at a time while the disk light comes on and > stays on. That's another problem, and I did play with some patches this > weekend without making myself really happy :-( Another topic, > unfortunately.
I think this is a critical problem. I'd like to be able to have some assurance that a task with a buffer of size N doing read-disk->write-disk will maintain data flow at some minimal rate over intervals of 1 or 2 seconds or something like that.
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