Re: qsbench, interesting results

[Daniel Phillips]

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 19:29, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Gimp should thrash exactly as much as it needs to, to get its job
> > done.  No competition, remember?
> 
> No competition ?  I know _I_ don't have a machine dedicated to
> gimp and I like to be able to continue listening to mp3s while
> the gimp is chewing on a large image...

Streaming IO has a very small footprint, essentially just the readahead,
so this has more to do with IO scheduling than paging.  VM just has to
take care not to completely close down the readahead window or throw
away readahead before it gets used.  No theoretical problem here, just a
small matter of coding ;-)

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Daniel