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Concurrent Systems II - Bad Request - Trinity College Dublin

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Disk access<br />

• Disks are slow<br />

◾ We need ways to improve the performance of disk I/O<br />

◾ Caching is one possibility, but this still doesn’t help us on the occasions when device I/O needs to be<br />

performed<br />

◾ How can the operating system improve disk I/O performance?<br />

• Aside: Disk I/O delays …<br />

◾ seek time: the head must be positioned at the correct track on the platter<br />

◾ rotational delay: the transfer cannot begin until the required sector is below the head (sometimes expressed<br />

at latency)<br />

◾ data transfer: the read or write operation is performed<br />

• Average access time:<br />

seek<br />

latency transfer<br />

215<br />

<strong>Trinity</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Dublin</strong><br />

© Mike Brady 2007–2009

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