On 06/07/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip]
Try playing with reducing /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio and see how that helps. This workload will fill up memory with dirty data very quickly, and it seems like system responsiveness often goes down the toilet when this happens and the system is going crazy trying to write it all out.
Perhaps trying out a different elevator would also be worthwhile. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
