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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:35:00 +0000 (GMT)


> So the worst behaviour I see is that on a loaded system, a low priority
> task can hold up another task, if that task should be our interactive
> task, the interactivity is of course gone. But this problem is not really
> new, as we have no guarantees regarding i/o latencies. So everyone using
> any patch should be aware of that it's not a magical tool and for getting
> better scheduling latencies, one has to trade something else, but so far
> I haven't seen any evidence that it makes something else much worse.

It doesn't make anything better is the issue. Its more complex than ll but
gains nothing
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