Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:35:00 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> So the worst behaviour I see is that on a loaded system, a low priority > task can hold up another task, if that task should be our interactive > task, the interactivity is of course gone. But this problem is not really > new, as we have no guarantees regarding i/o latencies. So everyone using > any patch should be aware of that it's not a magical tool and for getting > better scheduling latencies, one has to trade something else, but so far > I haven't seen any evidence that it makes something else much worse.
It doesn't make anything better is the issue. Its more complex than ll but gains nothing - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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