linux-kernel - Re: Strange write starvation on 2.6.17 (and other) kernels

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Message-ID: <17646.36219.417129.477853@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Date:	Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:41:15 +1000
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Andrzej Szymanski <szymans@....edu.pl>,
	Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@...tron.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange write starvation on 2.6.17 (and other) kernels

On Tuesday August 22, neilb@...e.de wrote:
> 
> In my various experimenting the one thing that was effective in
> improving the fairness was to make Linux impose write throttling more
> often.

I might have found something else too....

Were you using ext3?

If you, can you try mounting with  data=writeback
and see if that makes any difference to the fairness?

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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