Editing I/O bound (section)

{{Short description|Computer program whose performance is heavily dependent on time spent waiting on I/O}}
In [[computer science]], '''I/O bound''' refers to a condition in which the time it takes to complete a [[computation]] is determined principally by the period spent waiting for [[input/output]] operations to be completed, which can be juxtaposed with being [[CPU bound]]. This circumstance arises when the rate at which [[data]] is requested is slower than the rate it is consumed or, in other words, more time is spent requesting data than processing it.<ref>[http://osr507doc.sco.com/en/PERFORM/ident_IO_bound.html Identifying disk I/O-bound systems]</ref>