Why does disk I/O slow down a CPU bound task?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:43 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://lwn.net/Articles/572911/
> https://lwn.net/Articles/467328/

Yeah, I vaguely remember that discussion. I went down this rabbit hole
in mid-2008, wrote a couple of papers and moved on with my life.
There's no software solution - get faster hardware and more RAM and
don't design I/O-bound systems.

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