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SubjectRe: Prioritized I/O
David Olofson writes:
> Rogier Wolff wrote:
> (...Latency...)
> > Larry, to solve the problem that you brought up, how about
> > artificially increasing the priority of the write requests with the
> > urgency that we need the memory. Would that work?
>
> What about doing the same thing as all recording systems with
> swapping to disk should do: Use a separate drive for recording. Or
> just don't use any swap. You can't have it all at the same
> time... unless you can stand that extra disk, that is. ;-)

Exactly! I know it can seem "nice" that a FS could prioritise access,
but is it really worth the drama? Dedicating a disc to a high priority
task seems much simpler and robust.

Regards,

Richard....
Old: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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