[LUAU] controller amount of data to flush from buffer cache

2004-10-04 Thread Jimen Ching
Hi all, I have a kernel related question, which I want to exhaust all other arenas before bothering the linux kernel mailing list. The problem is, I'm writing large amounts of data to disk. I.e. 4megs per write() call and gigabytes of data. The buffer cache is intercepting these write() calls a

Re: [LUAU] controller amount of data to flush from buffer cache

2004-10-13 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:24:55 -1000 (HST), Jimen Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is, I'm writing large amounts of data to disk. I.e. 4megs per > write() call and gigabytes of data. The buffer cache is intercepting > these write() calls and flushes what seems to be 32k at a time. I w

Re: [LUAU] controller amount of data to flush from buffer cache

2004-10-13 Thread Jimen Ching
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Vince Hoang wrote: >elvtune(8) might be of use to you. It lets you tune I/O based on >time, rather than size, however. I'll take a look at this. >Assuming, ext3 you might consider the data=journal and noatime mount >options if you have not already done so. Yes, I've tried a