Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2000 04:50:26 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: An elevator algorithm (patch) |
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:38:17PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Yes, I run my system with elvtune -r 250 -w 500. > > Ok (sorry for asking, it was just to be sure). > > > But even with -r 5 -w 5, I saw starvation. This, and > > I'd call it "too high latency", not starvation.
When the latency gets above 10 minutes, I'd call it starvation ;)
> > the code, is a clear sign to me that Peter is absolutely > > right and his corrections to the code should be merged. > > Peter correction can improve performance but it shouldn't > decrease the latency significantly.
Not average latency no, but the starvation issue should be fixed...
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