On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:55:35PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:42:57AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > The second problem is I/O priority: buffers of a large, batch I/O have
> > the same priority as a one-buffer I/O on which a process is blocked.
> > This also kills interractive performances (and the disksort() routines
> > probably make this even worse).
> 
> There's an SGI white paper on the dual-queue method they use to minimize
> this problem in Irix.  I think I sent a link for it to this list at one
> point in the past.

I couldn't find it ...
Do you remember the title of the paper ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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