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

Robert Love
2002-01-21T21:20:29Z

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 11:48, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> The disk and the IO thread are active a higher portion of the time, while the
> kernel hog gets the same amount of time. So in this case we have improved
> both latency and throughput.
>
> Naturally I constructed this case to show the effect most clearly. There are
> many possible variations on the above scenario. It does seem to explain the
> latency/throughput improvements that have been reported in practice.

Well put. I think this is exact the scenario we are observing.

Its the same benefit to latency. We react quicker.

Robert Love