On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > fsync on a very large file is very slow on the 2.2 kernels
> >
> > This could very well be due to request allocation starvation.
> > fsync is sleeping in __get_request_wait() while bonnie keeps
> > on stealing all the requests.
>
> That may amplify it but in the 2.2 case fsync on any sensible sized file
> is already horribly performing. It hits databases like solid quite badly
>
please elaborate on "sensible sized". In my case it is less then 20MB.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alexander N. Moibenko, Integrated Systems Development, CD, Fermilab
Tel: (630)840-3937
email: moibenko@fnal.fnal.gov
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 15 2002 - 21:01:04 EST