Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:01:43 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:

>No , have very little swapin/swapouts (only occasionally) when clicking on the
>xterm icon.

As expected.

Incidentally that's exactly the _thing_ you report to be slow just in the
line below. Maybe it's only an unlucky coincidence? ;)

>After this time when I must wait up to 5-6sec from clicking to the icon to the
>actual launch of the xterm.

>Of course this is because the disk is under high load , and loads the

The swapin slowdown things (still more if the disk is under load).

Andrea

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