Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762126AbXE1Jvj (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 05:51:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751978AbXE1Jvc (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 05:51:32 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59975 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751866AbXE1Jvc (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 05:51:32 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Benny Amorsen Subject: Re: 2.6.21.1 - 97% wait time on IDE operations Date: 28 May 2007 11:51:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200705261505.38109@gj-laptop> <200705261746.01568@gj-laptop> <2c0942db0705260907g4e37d4avcc652d2b7368edd5@mail.gmail.com> <200705271222.30169@gj-laptop> <20070527130228.3731ff4d@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.8.185.213.dk-amb.res.sta.perspektivbredband.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 13 >>>>> "AC" == Alan Cox writes: AC> Provided they don't get within about 5-10% of full a lot of the AC> time Unix file systems generally don't That's a big if right there. For servers it isn't a problem, few people can get capacity right to withing 10%, so you never let a server run full. Desktops/laptops on the other hand spend most of their lives between 80% and 100%. /Benny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/