Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:03:10 +0100 (CET) | From | Giuliano Pochini <> | Subject | Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2. |
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> In the time of one disk seek plus half rotational latency > (12 ms) you can do a pretty large amount of reading (>400kB). > This means that for near and medium disk seeks you don't care > all that much about how large the submitted IO is. Track buffers > further reduce this importance.
This isn't always true. Removable devices usually have a quite low seek time compared to their raw transfer rate.
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