Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"

Ben LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:14:05 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> For nicer interactive behaviour while flushing things out, the
> inode_fsync() thing should really use "write_locked_buffers()". That's a
> separate patch, though.

Mildly better interactive performance, but absolutely horrid io
throughput. The system degrades to the point where blocks are getting
flushed to disk at ~2MB/s vs the 80MB/s its capable of. Not instrumented
since I'm trying to actually relax.

-ben

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