From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: ext3 fsync being starved for a long time by cp and cronjob Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:30:56 +0200 References: <200608251353.51748.ak@suse.de> <200608251422.48287.ak@suse.de> <20060825122615.GB24258@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: <20060825122615.GB24258@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608251430.56655.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jens Axboe Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org