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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] disk throughput
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:52:49 +0100
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On November 5, 2001 11:22 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - The seek distance-versus-cost equation has changed.  Take a look
>   at a graph of seek distance versus time.  Once you've decided to
>   seek ten percent of the distance across the disk, a 90% seek only
>   takes twice as long.

Do you have such a graph handy?

--
Daniel