Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:55:39 -0400 | From | Charles Shannon Hendrix <> | Subject | Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x |
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Fri, 16 Apr 2004 @ 22:28 -0700, Trond Myklebust said:
> It's an inevitable side-effect of the increased caching.
OK. That answers my question of: was making NFS bursty done on purpose. Answer: no.
> If you are constantly writing out data, then you spread out the load > a lot more than if you wait until the user actually requests a flush. > On the other hand, it means that if your application reads/writs > several times over the same page, then you only write it out once.
Usually, eliminating redundant writes in your application is a better optimization than relying on the OS to do it for you.
I find bursty I/O is less desirable in most cases.
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