Re: Eradic disk access during reads

From: Al Boldi
Date: Sun Sep 18 2005 - 01:59:42 EST


Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:16:46AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> >
> > New synonym: eradic=erratic :)
> >
> > The problem seems to be a multi-access collision in the queue, which
> > forces a ~50% reduction of thruput, which recovers with another
> > multi-access collision. Maybe?!
>
> do you have anything else connected to the same controller ?

Nothing, but hda.

This problem only shows in 2.6.13, 2.4.31 works ok!

Maybe this is also accociated to the block-dev read-ahead problem?

Thanks!

--
Al


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