Am Montag, 23. Dezember 2002 16:32 schrieb Russell Coker: > One thing that could really improve system performance would be something > like "nice" but for disk IO. > > If you have a server that's using 90% of it's disk bandwidth with a large > number of clients (EG a big mail server) then a simple "find /" is usually > enough to give it a load average of 50+ and a delay of 1 second for every > disk request (which makes operations such as POP mail checks excessively > slow).
What you are really looking for is the deadline IO scheduler coming with 2.5/2.6. Merry Christmas! -Dieter -- Dieter N�tzel Graduate Student, Computer Science University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home: Dieter.Nuetzel at hamburg.de (replace at with @)
