Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

[Jesper Juhl]

On 06/07/07, Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> Try playing with reducing /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio and see how that
> helps. This workload will fill up memory with dirty data very quickly,
> and it seems like system responsiveness often goes down the toilet when
> this happens and the system is going crazy trying to write it all out.

Perhaps trying out a different elevator would also be worthwhile.

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