Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 21 Jan 2002 16:24:07 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 11:48, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> The disk and the IO thread are active a higher portion of the time, while the > kernel hog gets the same amount of time. So in this case we have improved > both latency and throughput. > > Naturally I constructed this case to show the effect most clearly. There are > many possible variations on the above scenario. It does seem to explain the > latency/throughput improvements that have been reported in practice.
Well put. I think this is exact the scenario we are observing.
Its the same benefit to latency. We react quicker.
Robert Love
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