Re: Resource Management on General-Purpose Systems

"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:03:01 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.hurd.l4
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

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.

OTOH, disk I/O scheduling is considered a hard problem.

shap