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

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Dieter N�tzel
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University of Hamburg
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