Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:12:58 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 00:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:32:32 +0200 Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 06:25 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > As promised, I tested with a kernel that I know for fact that I have > > tested heavy IO on previously, and behavior was identically horrid, so > > it's not something new that snuck in ~recently, my disk just got a _lot_ > > fuller in the meantime (12k mp3s munch a lot). > > Just to clarify here - you're saying that some older kernel is as sucky as > 2.6.21, and that (presumably) dropping the dirty ratios makes things a bit > better on the old kernel as well?
I didn't drop dirty ratios, only verified that behavior was just as horrible as 2.6.21.
> Actually, I'm surprised that data=writeback didn't help much. If the > present theories are correct it should have helped quite a lot, because in > data=writeback mode fsync(small-file) will not cause > fdatasync(everything-else).
data=writeback did help quite noticeably, just not enough.
-Mike
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