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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:01:43 +0000
Subject: Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable
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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:

>No , have very little swapin/swapouts (only occasionally) when clicking on the
>xterm icon. 

As expected.

Incidentally that's exactly the _thing_ you report to be slow just in the
line below. Maybe it's only an unlucky coincidence? ;)

>After this time when I must wait up to 5-6sec from clicking to the icon to the
>actual launch of the xterm.

>Of course this is because the disk is under high load , and loads the

The swapin slowdown things (still more if the disk is under load).

Andrea