Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!goanna!ajk
From: ajk@goanna.oz (Alan Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: AmigaDos don't thrash no more!
Message-ID: <1182@goanna.oz>
Date: 23 Feb 88 23:23:38 GMT
References: <5500013@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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> An elevator algorithm doesn't produce starvation.  

One point that seems to be missed here is that the elevator algorithm
works well for large multi-user systems where there maybe 30 disk requests
pending in the queue, but for an amiga with only 2 or maybe 3 requests,
it doesnt really help that much.

Alan Kent