Andrea Righi wrote: > David Newall wrote: > >> Andrea Righi wrote: >> >>> [I/O-intensive] processes can noticeably impact the system responsiveness >>> for some time and playing with tasks' priority is not always an >>> acceptable solution. >>> >>> >> Why? >> >> > > Well, I mean, we can't use 'nice' to grant less priority for the I/O > intensive app, because the I/O intensive app itself doesn't need a lot > of CPU. Instead, the I/O-bound app eats all the available I/O bandwidth, > that's a different issue.
That's what I was thinking. Your original, "not always an acceptable solution," made me wonder if you were referring to something obscure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
