Re: Useful work vs Elevator sort

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
18 Nov 1998 20:18:41 -0500

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:
> I think would make a far greater /perceived/ difference would be some sort
> of priority based sorting. The problem that should be solved is to have

Maybe an IO-niceness to manage a floating IO-priority would be a good start?
Similarly, a ram-niceness could be setup to evict pages from lesser
processes ?

Stefan

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