> > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/1 bs=1024k &
> >
> > which is the moral equivalent to a fork-bomb: it generates an overwhelming
> > stream of requests to the same region of disk.
>
> Ehm, a simple mkisofs does a similar thing...
no: mkisofs is copying, and thus throttled.
> I've installed Andrea's "elevator-starvation-2" patch, and was fine.
> Interactive response is much better, apparently without performance losses.
benchmarks?
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