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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:50:04 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Georg Nikodym wrote:

> Incidentally, a colleague claimed to have seem this behaviour on a
> non-rmap 2.4.20.

> 1. Known behaviour?
> 2. Is there any data that I should be collecting that people are
>    interested in?
> 3. Or should I just go back to 2.4.19-rmap14b (which did not trouble me
>    in this way)?

The suspect is the disk elevator, which isn't scheduling requests
in a way to cause lower read latency, but is optimised more for
throughput.  This results in some pauses.

I'll need to look into it.

regards,

Rik
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