On August 27, 2001 09:36 pm, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
> --On Monday, 27 August, 2001 6:02 PM +0200 Daniel Phillips
> <phillips@bonn-fries.net> wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, we
> > will penalize faster streams that way
>
> Penalizing faster streams for the same number
> of pages is probably a good thing
> as they cost less time to replace.
Let me clarify, the stream is fast because its client is fast. The disk will
service the reads at the same speed for all the streams. (Let's not go into
the multi-disk case just now, ok?)
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