Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:41:15 +1000 | Subject | Re: Strange write starvation on 2.6.17 (and other) kernels |
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On Tuesday August 22, neilb@suse.de wrote: > > In my various experimenting the one thing that was effective in > improving the fairness was to make Linux impose write throttling more > often.
I might have found something else too....
Were you using ext3?
If you, can you try mounting with data=writeback and see if that makes any difference to the fairness?
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