Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

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On 06/07/07, Robert Hancock <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]

Try playing with reducing /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio and see how that
helps. This workload will fill up memory with dirty data very quickly,
and it seems like system responsiveness often goes down the toilet when
this happens and the system is going crazy trying to write it all out.


Perhaps trying out a different elevator would also be worthwhile.

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