Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 May 2013 03:54:46 +0200 | From | Alexander Holler <> | Subject | Re: Weird disk idling |
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Am 26.05.2013 07:29, schrieb Fredrik Tolf:
> I'm sure you all know what the various fields are (except the first,
Hmm, I had to look at Documentation/block/stat.txt.
> which is just a timestamp), so as you can see, there are 135 requests in > the queue, but no reads or writes happen, in this case, for at least 800 > ms. > > Is this behavior normal and expected, or is there something wrong here? > In the latter case, is it my hardware that is failing somehow, or can > there be some software weirdness that can be tweaked away or bugfixed?
I would say thats how caches do work. You might have a look at
sysctl vm
which shows a lot of the knobs you can turn to change some of the aspects you see.
Regards,
Alexander Holler
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