Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 08:23:20 EST


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Btw., i had this test going on that box while i wrote some simple
>> scripts in Vim - and it was a horrible experience. The worst wait
>> was well above one minute - Vim just hung there indefinitely. Not
>> even Ctrl-Z was possible. I captured one such wait, it was hanging
>> right here:

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just a data point: I've seen this exact same time for a long time (1-2

s/same time/same thing/

> years) too even with stock distribution kernels. Never bothered to
> investigate it though.
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