Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Chris Friesen
2002-01-21T17:27:04Z

yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

> So your claim is that:
> Preemption improves latency when there are both kernel cpu bound
> tasks and tasks that are I/O bound with very low cache hit
> rates?
>
> Is that it?
>
> Can you give me an example of a CPU bound task that runs
> mostly in kernel? Doesn't that seem like a kernel bug?

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null

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