Randy Appleton
Math and Computer Science Dept.
NMU

"Disk Scheduling in Linux"
Thursday, December 4, 2003
NSF 1205
4:00 p.m.

Your computer is only as fast as your hard drive.  During normal operation, each hard drive is given a set of requests to answer.  If there are multiple disk requests, correctly choosing the order to answer them can increase disk speed by several hundred percent. 

This lecture will describe several algorithms that have been used to order disk requests, including the real world problems that created the requests.