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Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"

To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"
From: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:14:05 -0400 (EDT)
cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108032045280.15155-200000@penguin.transmeta.com>
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> For nicer interactive behaviour while flushing things out, the
> inode_fsync() thing should really use "write_locked_buffers()". That's a
> separate patch, though.

Mildly better interactive performance, but absolutely horrid io
throughput.  The system degrades to the point where blocks are getting
flushed to disk at ~2MB/s vs the 80MB/s its capable of.  Not instrumented
since I'm trying to actually relax.

		-ben

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