Re: elevator-starvation-4 (2.2.14 && 2.3.42)

From: Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 07:44:21 EST

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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

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