--- Leroy van Logchem <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Ok perhaps the new adaptive dirty limits helps your single disk
> >> a lot too. But your improvements seem to be more "collateral
> damage" @)
> >>
> >> But if that was true it might be enough to just change the dirty
> limits
> >> to get the same effect on your system. You might want to play with
> >> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_*
> >
> > The adaptive dirty limit is per task so it can't be reproduced with
> > global sysctl. It made quite some difference when I researched into
> it
> > in function of time. This isn't in function of time but it
> certainly
> > makes a lot of difference too, actually it's the most important
> part
> > of the patchset for most people, the rest is for the corner cases
> that
> > aren't handled right currently (writing to a slow device with
> > writeback cache has always been hanging the whole thing).
>
>
> Self-tuning > static sysctl's. The last years we needed to use very
> small values for dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio to soften the
>
> latency problems we have during sustained writes. Imo these patches
> really help in many cases, please commit to mainline.
>
> --
> Leroy
>
while it helps in some situations, I did some tests today with
2.6.22.6+bdi-v9 (Peter was so kind) which seem to indicate that it
hurts NFS writes. Anyone seen similar effects?
Otherwise I would just second your request. It definitely helps the
problematic performance of my CCISS based RAID5 volume.
Martin
Martin
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