I have a python app, which displays bimtmaps on screen (every 1sec a new bitmap) which were preloaded into memory before...I want that nothing disrupts this presentation (HD shall be quiet, it hasn't to do nothing...) would the new kernel2.4.20-13.9! be something for me? thanks christoph On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 12:58, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 11:43, Christopher Chan wrote: > > can you tell us what changes you made to the elevator? > > > > the biggest change is a patch from Andrew Morton that will give priority > to reads in the presence of heavy write loads; since reads in general > are things the user waits on while writes are generally asynchronous, > this is a very interesting optimisation > > In addition some constants used in the elevator about how agressive it > can reorder have been tuned towards more interactive performance (at the > cost of raw throughput/performance) -- Christoph Lehmann <christoph.lehmann@xxxxxx>
