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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:20:30 -0600
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing
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> I'm now saying for the 3rd time, that there's zero problem in having a
> huge dirty cache backlog. This is not the problem, please disregard any
> reference to that. Count only the time spent for servicing a read
> request, _from when it enters the drive_ and until it completes. IO
> scheduler is _not_ involved.

On the drive?  That's all I've been saying.

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Justin
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