Re: [PATCH] O11int for interactivity

Nick Piggin
2003-08-05T03:24:14Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:07:44PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Let me know if you come up with anything significant ;)
>>
>
>Well, I was vaguely hoping a useful way to instrument the io stuff
>would already be out there.
>
>

Not really.
For a process doing blocking reads you could measure the time
from when a process submits a read to when it gets the result.
I suppose you also need some minimum rate too but I really can't
see that being the problem here.