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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: Low latency for recent kernels
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:18:13 +0100
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On January 23, 2002 10:37 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Probably, poor interactivity on the desktop is more due to
> waiting on disk reads - a combination of bad read latency
> in the presence of write traffic and unfortunate page replacement
> decisions.

Yep, and half-formed ideas of process scheduling.  The good news is, it's all 
being worked on by people who know what they're doing (including, obviously, 
you).

--
Daniel

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