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Re: Resource Management on General-Purpose Systems
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: Resource Management on General-Purpose Systems |
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Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:03:01 -0400 |
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:07 +0100, Sam Mason wrote:
> I tend to use my computer for listening to music and playing videos
> and tend to get annoyed when the music skips or frames are dropped.
> Thus timeliness is as important as overall utilisation for some of my
> workloads.
Sam: I agree, but what you experienced was a disk I/O scheduling fault,
not a limitation on available memory.
OTOH, disk I/O scheduling is considered a hard problem.
shap
Re: Resource Management on General-Purpose Systems, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/07/12