On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:53:20PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> There are two categories of dumpers, "little" and "big". The first three
> (LITTLE_DUMPERS in driver.c) dumpers from "inparallel" are assigned
> to "little" duty, everyone else is "big". Little dumpers pick entries
> from the head (shortest estimated time) of the queue. Big dumpers take
> entries from the end (longest estimated time) of the queue.
I'm working on a patch where each dumpers can have different criteria for
the disk it pick according to (smallest or biggest: bandwidth, size or time)
The criteria I'm using might not be good for you, but it give me a good
speedup. You update the type_dumpers array to change the criteria for
a dumper.
Jean-Louis
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