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

yodaiken
2002-01-21T17:53:44Z

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:32:57PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 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

Don't see any of Daniel's postulated long latencies there. (Sorry, but
I'm having a hard time figuring out what is meant as a serious comment
here).

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