Jim C. Nasby wrote:
Actually, from what I've read 4.2BSD actually took priority into account when scheduling I/O.
FWIW, you can set I/O priority in recent versions of the Linux kernel using ionice, which is part of RML's schedutils package (which was recently merged into util-linux).
-Neil
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