Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:41:21 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/21] random fixes |
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> fast IBM disk. Filesystem was ext3 in data=ordered mode. Test workload > was an inbound (from the point of view of the system under test) FTP > transfer of a 600 MB iso image. All test runs were from a clean boot > with all unnecessary services shut down.
> machine stalled (FTP transfer halted, vmstat output paused, etc.). With > 2.5.31-akpm, the stalls were about 3-4 seconds in length. With 2.5.31, > the stalls were of the same duration, but slightly less frequent. With
Definately some writeout sillyness. Why would we ever stop writing pages to disk while a transfer is going on and then suddenly decide to stall the system because pages are being dirtied at a rate faster than we write them ?
If we can smooth out the writing we can keep the disks busy all the time and should in theory perform better. I wonder why Andrew made the writeout in 2.5 _more_ bursty ...
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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