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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:44:22 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alterations to vops
Message-ID:  <20000707104422.P25571@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007071941170.74828-100000@login-1.eunet.no>; from mbendiks@eunet.no on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:42:18PM %2B0200
References:  <20000707080644.H25571@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007071941170.74828-100000@login-1.eunet.no>

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* Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> [000707 10:42] wrote:
> > I think it's AIX that has a tuneable per-process limit on outstanding
> > IO.  It would be an interesting thing to implement.
> 
> A more complex I/O system, with scheduling and good async operation,
> would also be interesting. For example, reads would be balanced more
> evenly across tasks, while writes would be buffered for larger chunk
> writes.

We have that, see vfs_cluster.c, but if we could limit the outstanding
IO per process whether read or write we could throttle procs so that
they can't saturate the disks.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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