[Bug 31766] Re: [Bug 31766] Re: [Bug 31766] Re: Dapper: Total starvation of GUI apps during heavy disk usage

[Timothy Miller]

We need to get with the kernel developers, because my understanding
was that AIO wasn't supposed to cause starvation like this.
Primarily, it improves throughput by introducing small delays before
making read requests.  These small delays should not be perceptible to
the causal user.

On 6/1/06, John Dong <john.dong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does CFQ help you out?
>
>
> I don't see why we don't set the CFQ scheduler as default on desktop
> kernels... AIO is pretty cool for maximizing throughput but IO interactivity
> just suffers.
>

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Dapper:  Total starvation of GUI apps during heavy disk usage
https://launchpad.net/bugs/31766