Idleness is Not Sloth
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spend much of their time idle, and various schemes have been proposed to use this idle time productively. We have used this approach to improve overall performance in storage systems. The most common approach is to off-load activity from busy periods to less-busy ones in order to improve system responsiveness. In addition, speculative work can be performed in idle periods in the hope that it will be needed later at times of higher utilization, or a nonrenewable resource power can be conserved by disabling unused resources during idle periods.
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