Re: Writeout in recent kernels/VMs poor compared to last -ac

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:03:43 -0200 (BRST)


On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Adam Kropelin wrote:

> I recently began regularly transferring large (600 MB+) files to my
> Linux-based fileserver and have noticed what I would characterize as
> poor writeout behavior under this load. I've done a bit of comparison
> testing which may help reveal the problem better.

> -ac, on the other hand, is very smooth (still a noticeable
> oscillation, but far more consistent):

Thanks for tracking down this bug. I'll try to find out what
is causing it and will attempt to fix this problem.

regards,

Rik

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