Re: elevator-starvation-4 (2.2.14 && 2.3.42)

[Olivier Galibert]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 06:27:50AM -0800, Bruce Thompson wrote:
> That's the basic algorithm I learned in an OS course from my 
> undergrad degree nearly 15 years ago, have I missed something major?

The fact that eventually can be too far in the future to matter.  Just
try "cat /dev/zero >file".  You'll have to wait until either your
partition fills or you hit the 2Gb limit before you can do anything.
This takes too long a while.

  OG.