Re: [resent PATCH] Re: very slow parallel read performance

Oliver Neukum
2001-08-27T20:04:00Z

Hi,

> Thinking about it a bit more, we also want to drop pages
> from fast streams faster, to an extent, than we drop
> them from slow streams (as well as dropping quite
> a few pages at once), as these 'cost' more to replace.

what leads you to this conclusion ?
A task that needs little time to process data it reads in is hurt much more
by added latency due to a disk read.

Regards
Oliver