Messages in this thread | | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:12:57 +0100 |
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> Or just doing a large write while doing lots of reads... my personal > nemesis is "mkisofs" for backups, which reads lots of small files and > builds a CD image, which suddenly gets discovered by the kernel and > written, seemingly in a monolythic chunk. I MAY be able to improve this > with tuning the bdflush parameters, and I tried some tentative patches > which didn't make a huge gain. > > I don't know if the solution lies in forcing write to start when a certain > size of buffers are queued regardless of percentages, or in better > scheduling of reads ahead of writes, or whatever.
Have you observed it with -rmap or -aa, too? I bet, you have.
Try Andrew's read-latency.patch then. I use it on top of O(1) and preempt all the time. It should be one of the next 2.4.18-preX/2.4.19-preX patches.
Regards, Dieter
-- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science
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