Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Bruce Thompson wrote:
>
> >process. Once the counter exceeds some particular highwater mark the
> >process is blocked from entering more requests until the counter
> >drops to some lowwater mark. Hmm. ANother thought. Make the counter
>
> You never generate I/O from tasks. It's when the buffer is too old that
> kupdate flushes writes to disk. At that time the process is just exited
> and the user just run another program that gets stalled due the write
> flood.
>
I believe this is technically incorrect - what about fsync() calls and files
opened O_SYNC? I'm sick, so feel free to shoot me if I'm off-base. ;)
- Pete
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