Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jon Tombs <> | Subject | Re: Bandwidth limits?? | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:52:39 +0100 (MET) |
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Wayne Schlitt said:
> Personally, I think this should be done it the kernel somehow and > apply it to any/all shared I/O devices. A large 'tar x' should not > kill disk I/O for everyone. Ftp shouldn't kill the Ethernet for all > users of the network. A program that is dumping stuff to the X server > shouldn't kill X performance for all the other programs.
Linux covers the tar above quite well, but I guess from your tone that you have IDE disks. The X problem isn't related to the kernel, but a feature of the single threaded X server, but as just about all video cards only permit a single command queue it is still very difficult to keeps things moving when one client is dumping data to the screen.
All nice ideas, but sometimes it is the hardware that lets you down.
Jon.
-- Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>
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