From: Adam Goldberg (goldberg@iastate.edu)
Date: 05/15/92 

From: goldberg@iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg)
Subject: Re: Abysmal disk performance
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 18:27:31 GMT

In <IJW11.92May15142447@manea.cl.cam.ac.uk> ijw11@phx.cam.ac.uk (Ian Wells) writes:

>2. Is there a technical name for when the hard disk sits
>reading/writing two separate sections of the disk some distance apart
>and spends most of its time seeking? This is something annoying I've
>tended to notice with Linux, but if it now does readahead on files it
>may be improved in this respect.

I'd call that 'Thrashing'. Is that a technical term? 

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