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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:34:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file
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> If you don't like this behavior, which actually maximizes the
> throughput of the device, have the I/O scheduler hold back a single
> processes from creating such a large backlog.


Justin and I are (for once) in 100% agreement.


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