> > Would it be possible to introduce concept of I/O priority? I.e. I want
> > updatedb not to load disk if I need it for something else?
>
> makes sense to me. actually, VM is another place where priority
> could be quite useful - for instance, how hard the VM scavenges
> a proc's pages. oops, there I go advocating a tunable...
>
> VM_SWAP_ME_HARDER anyone?
This seems to work very badly, making one process swap more
means it pagefaults more and sucks up more IO bandwidth ;)
regards,
Rik
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