On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

writes *unless* you are creating an ISO image on your disk.  In my opinion
it is much more important to optimize for the more common, concurrent
read case, than it is for the sequential write case with intermittent
reads.

You're missing the point.  The only reason the reads are
intermittent is that the application can't proceed until
the read is done and the read is being starved by writes.

If the read was serviced immediately, the next read could
get scheduled quickly and they wouldn't be intermittant.

Rik
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