Subject: Re: jerky interactive behavior
To: Tom Spindler <dogcow@babymeat.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/21/2007 22:54:26
Tom Spindler <dogcow@babymeat.com> writes:
>> As of Jan, something seems to have broken BUFQ_READPRIO -- unclear who
>> did it or why, but it is very clear to me that it got broken. The
>> old symptoms of lots of disk i/o locking out userland processes trying
>> to read something have returned.
>
> FWIW, I do _not_ have BUFQ_READPRIO in either of my kernels that this
> manifests itself.

My point was that I think that the behavior that BUFQ_READPRIO
formerly prevented on my machines is now happening again for me.

Perry