> There were heaps of problems in there and it is surprising how few people
> were hitting them. Ordered-mode journalling filesystems will fix it all up
> behind the scenes, of course.
>
> I just have a bad feeling about that code - list_heads are the wrong data
> structure and it all needs to be
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:52:39 +0200
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The following strange behavior can be observed:
> > >
> > > 1. large file is written
> > > 2. after 30 seconds, nr_dirty goes down by 1024
> > > 3. then for some time (< 30 sec) nothing happens (disk idle)
> > > 4.
> > The following strange behavior can be observed:
> >
> > 1. large file is written
> > 2. after 30 seconds, nr_dirty goes down by 1024
> > 3. then for some time (< 30 sec) nothing happens (disk idle)
> > 4. then nr_dirty again goes down by 1024
> > 5. repeat from 3. until whole file is written
>
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:45:16PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> The following strange behavior can be observed:
>
> 1. large file is written
> 2. after 30 seconds, nr_dirty goes down by 1024
> 3. then for some time (< 30 sec) nothing happens (disk idle)
> 4. then nr_dirty again goes down by 1024
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:45:16 +0200
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following strange behavior can be observed:
>
> 1. large file is written
> 2. after 30 seconds, nr_dirty goes down by 1024
> 3. then for some time (< 30 sec) nothing happens (disk idle)
> 4. then nr_dirty again goe
The following strange behavior can be observed:
1. large file is written
2. after 30 seconds, nr_dirty goes down by 1024
3. then for some time (< 30 sec) nothing happens (disk idle)
4. then nr_dirty again goes down by 1024
5. repeat from 3. until whole file is written
So basically a 4Mbyte chunk
