Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:44:21 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: elevator-starvation-4 (2.2.14 && 2.3.42) |
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Bruce Thompson wrote:
> Sorry, but I must respectfully disagree. The time to service the > request specifically is _not_ unbounded, it's bounded by the size > of the disk.
Do you want your interactive program to wait 14 GB because some program in the background is in need of reading or writing 14 GB of data?
The upper bound is simply too large if we don't do anything.
Rik -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength.
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