On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:50 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> They can count, but only when used for network sockets or pipes ("slow
> devices" or whatever the posix language is). Disk IO doesn't count as that. So
> I don't think it'd be a huge issue.
Somehow the idea that the network is a slow device and the disk a fast
one does not seem like it's necessarily accurate on modern hardware,
but I guess the spec is what it is.
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