Re: sluggish system responsiveness under higher IO load

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Aug 08 2006, Matthias Dahl wrote:
> > Can you see if this makes any difference whatsoever?
> 
> Sorry but no change for the better with this patch.
> 
> Are there any more informations I can provide to help?

Ok, it was worth a shot. I got another report that the patch fixes this
behaviour, so maybe we are dealing with two seperate issues. It would be
nice if you could gather vmstat 1 info during a problematic period.
blktrace info could also be very useful:

http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/blktrace-git-20060807122505.tar.gz

-- 
Jens Axboe

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