Hi Andrea,
> you may want to try with this setting that helps with very slow devices:
> echo 2 500 0 0 500 3000 3 1 0 > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
>
> or also with my current default tuned for high performance:
> echo 50 500 0 0 500 3000 60 20 > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
I've tested both without any changes, "pausings" are still there.
> you may have too many dirty buffers around and you end running at disk
> speed at every memory allocation, the first setting will decrease the
> amount of dirty buffers dramatically, if you still have significant
> slowdown with the first setting above, it's most probably only the usual
> elevator issue.
Seems so.
So I have to use 2.4.18 until there is a real proper fix for that.
ciao, Marc
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