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On Wednesday 05 July 2006 05:43, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> sorry for the silly subject, but did you ever experience the following?: |
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> i have a fileserver, i copy a file to it - let's say 600MB. |
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> So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the |
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> cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time |
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> - during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for |
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> any other IO. I'm playing an mp3 from the very same fileserver. It stops |
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> playing, because the machine does answer the read-requests. |
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> So what's going on here? |
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> Why does Linux write so huge amounts of data to the disk? Why does Linux |
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> not stop writing for a while to fullfil the read-requests? And so on ... |
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> Any idea, on how to imrpove that? |
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using the cfq or deadline io-scheduler? |
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