On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:03:01PM -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > 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.
I read it as applying to the CPU scheduler as well, rereading it I think I got that wrong. > OTOH, disk I/O scheduling is considered a hard problem. Guaranteeing bandwidth/latency to specific processes seems hard to me. It always seemed to be the latency making it all so difficult, but I'm not sure if that's just the way I was thinking about it before. Sam _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
