Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:53:09 -0700


On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:45:35PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> What we should be worrying about is how to balance reads against writes under
> heavy load.
>

Yes, I agree. You can have a process that is at a 19 niceness level that
doesn't do much processing, but a lot of disk access bring your system down
to a crawl.

Improvement in this area would be nice.
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