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Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"
From: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On 04 Aug 2001 10:08:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Mike Black wrote:
> >
> > I'm testing 2.4.8-pre4 -- MUCH better interactivity behavior now.
> 
> Good.. However.. [...]  before we get too happy about the interactive thing, let's
> remember that sometimes interactivity comes at the expense of throughput,
> and maybe if we fix the throughput we'll be back where we started.

Could there be both interactive and throughput optimizations, and a way
to choose one or the other at run-time? Or even just at compile time?