Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:50:04 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.20-rmap15b |
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Georg Nikodym wrote:
> 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,
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