tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post2312929826401439927..comments2024-03-18T17:34:35.079+00:00Comments on A Smackerel of Opinion: Benford's Law with real world data.Colin Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458723239721015750noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-39004447501669436592012-11-23T08:58:02.152+00:002012-11-23T08:58:02.152+00:00Hi Colin,
Few days ago, I came across a disk I/O ...Hi Colin,<br /><br />Few days ago, I came across a disk I/O scheduler called 'BFQ', which according to its creators, has the ability to speed up program loading times (quite significantly) when the disk is busy, or other disk I/O bound apps are running from the background. <br /><br />So I decided to test it out and have been using it for the couple of days in my Ubuntu 12.10. <br /><br />I don't know if you had used it before, but I'm extremely impressed by its above mentioned ability, that is to load programs really fast, when other disk I/O hungry apps running from the background. <br /><br /><br />I do understand that taking something in like a disk I/O scheduler into an OS is a risky task, and is not something that is simple. <br /><br />But it looks so impressive at what it does, and might well worth testing it out (if you haven't done it already, of course). <br /><br />Below is a link to one of my lame articles about it, but I would love to see some extensive benchmarks from you guys. <br /><br />http://www.hecticgeek.com/2012/11/bfq-loads-programs-extremely-fast-under-heavy-disk-io-workloads-ubuntu/<br /><br />Thanks you very much. Gayanhttp://www.hecticgeek.com/noreply@blogger.com