Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #2824 (was: elevator)
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:50:02 +0000
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 02:30:36PM +1100, Nathan Hand wrote:
> I saw it as increasing the worst case time, but decreasing the time
> required to service all requests. My guess was that this works well
> for single user systems, where you would prefer to reduce the start
> time for applications by favouring contiguous reads.
Why don't you try it and post the results? If it makes, say, Netscape
or Emacs start noticably faster then we'd like the change I'm sure.
-- Jamie
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