> Incidentally, a colleague claimed to have seem this behaviour on a
> non-rmap 2.4.20.
> 1. Known behaviour?
> 2. Is there any data that I should be collecting that people are
> interested in?
> 3. Or should I just go back to 2.4.19-rmap14b (which did not trouble me
> in this way)?
The suspect is the disk elevator, which isn't scheduling requests
in a way to cause lower read latency, but is optimised more for
throughput. This results in some pauses.
I'll need to look into it.
regards,
Rik
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