Subject: Re: Limiting disk I/O?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/13/2007 07:15:15
jmarin@embedtronics.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:

>On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:40:09AM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote:
>> What happened to http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/congest/ ?

>Wouldn't it be simpler to implement a new sysctl'able variable to limit the
>tps to some percentage of the disk I/O capacity?

The problem is not the disk. If you slow down the disk artificially
you just make the problem larger as you run out of buffers earlier.

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