Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:40:02 +0200 | From | Giuliano Pochini <> | Subject | Re: Oscillations in disk write compaction, poor interactive performance |
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> The problem is that at the low point in the cycle, the machine is > unusable. It is utterly unresponsive until the writes complete, which can > take a very long time (in the case of the ppc machine, several minutes!) > Anything that does disk I/O will block for a long time - having 'ls' take > two minutes is not a good thing.
Can you chack how much cpu time do dbflush and kswapd get ?
> 2.2 does not exhibit this behaviour.
2.2 is much worse IMO.
Bye.
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