linux-kernel - Re: Poor interactive performance with I/O loads with fsync()ing

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Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:35:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@...il.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, Pawel S <spawels13@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tytso <tytso@....edu>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Poor interactive performance with I/O loads with fsync()ing

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:27:19 +0100, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> wrote:
> It's also been my sneaking suspicion that swap is involved. I had lots
> of RAM in anything I use, even the laptop and workstation. I'll try and
> run some tests with lower memory and force it into swap, I've seen nasty
> hangs that way.
> 
Find out anything useful?

- Ben
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