Re: latencies due to disk writes

From: Mark Stier
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 13:08:31 EST


> I'm experiencing extreme lags during disk writes. [...]

Wacky idea: "ionice -n 7 -c 2" down the pdflush/swapd kernel threads.

As I already wrote in my post, no disk IO scheduler cares for disk
writes. So even CFQ is only a disk *IN* scheduler...
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