Re: Disk priority dependend on nice level...

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 05:01:05 EST

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Hi!

> > I ported `subj` to 2.6.0-test2. I do not yet have idea if it works,
> > but it compiles ;-).
>
> This wont do much, you might as well forget it. Disk priorities is far
> more work than you appear to think :)

This was not my patch, I only ported it.

I'm not heading for "perfect" disk priorities (not now :-), but having
something with at least measurable effect would be nice.

For a start "niced processes get starved during I/O" should do the
trick. (And it would help my lingvistics workloads).
Pavel

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