From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.king@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] fatal hang untarring 90GB file, possibly writeback related.
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:57:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304006262.2598.2.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303928753.2417.6.camel@lenovo>
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 19:25 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Just like to add that I've seen almost identical issues with 2.6.38
> copying large amounts of data to an ext4 filesystem with systems with
> small amounts of memory.
>
> I found that increasing /sys/fs/ext4/sdaX/max_writeback_mb_bump worked
> around the issue.
With the PREEMPT kernel, values of 256 and 512 don't prevent kswapd
spinning up to 99% and staying there.
James
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 16:09 James Bottomley
2011-04-27 16:33 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-27 16:50 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-27 16:54 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-27 17:21 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-27 17:34 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-27 17:50 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-27 18:25 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 15:57 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2011-04-27 20:05 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 11:36 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 12:29 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-28 13:42 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 13:45 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-28 14:01 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 14:04 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-28 15:23 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 14:25 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-28 14:33 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-28 14:58 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 22:40 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-28 22:44 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03 18:55 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 16:11 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 14:49 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 13:52 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-28 14:07 ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-28 14:25 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 15:08 ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-28 16:01 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 16:50 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 16:56 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 17:18 ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-28 18:30 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 19:21 ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-28 19:59 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 20:27 ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-29 15:02 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 21:12 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 22:43 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03 9:13 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-03 14:13 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03 14:22 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-06 7:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-06 8:07 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-09 18:16 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 10:21 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-10 10:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-10 14:01 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 14:35 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-10 15:29 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 15:57 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 17:05 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 17:17 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-10 17:29 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 21:08 ` Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-05-11 9:16 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-06 11:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-06 15:44 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-06 19:14 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-06 19:37 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-10 5:37 ` Colin Ian King
2011-05-06 15:58 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03 9:54 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 17:10 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 0:37 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-29 10:23 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-29 15:37 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-29 16:31 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-29 18:02 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-02 20:04 ` James Bottomley
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