On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:44:56AM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote: > > Since the database fits in RAM, the only kind of access Mysql is doing > > is writing to the innodb log, the mysql binlog and finally to the innodb > > database files. > > There are certainly a whole lot of fsync'ing happening. > > yes. Keep in mind that the binlog grows in file size too... so this has > to sync all the metadata as well (ick, i know).
It might be an interesting experiment to see if it still happens with the file system remounted as ext2. ext2 has a much more benign fsync than ext3. -Andi - 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/