limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (05/11/89)
How about at least serializing LoadSeg? I mean, just don't permit two
to happen at the same time on the same volume. The net has had a
number of screwy suggestions for stopping disk thrashing (not so much
FilePermit(), but others) I always thought this would be a little
simpler. Basically, LoadSeg could check and if someone else is
LoadSeg'ing on a volume, wait it's turn. It wouldn't be the end of
thrashing, but it would reduce it in a number of places.
Once I got my hard drive I found myself starting up many applications
at the same time for some reason and often I see a lot of thrashing
due to that.
Tom
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