Re: ext3 fsync being starved for a long time by cp and cronjob

On Friday 25 August 2006 14:26, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > > Does deadline do better?
> > 
> > It's not really repeatable workload. It's just my workstation which
> > got into this unpleasant state while me trying to get work done.
> > 
> > I can change it to deadline and see if I see this still again, but it might
> > take some time.
> 
> Yeah, a test case might be simpler to write and test with. I'll see if I
> can come up with something.

So you think it's the elevator? I was about to blame JBD.

-Andi



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