Re: Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait

[Tim Chen]

On 10/1/06, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I still don't get it. The job of the flock() system call is to sleep if
> someone already holds the lock, and then grab the lock when it is
> released. If that is not what the user expects, then the user has the
> option of not calling flock(). This has nothing to do with open().
>
> Trond

If I understand Leonid correctly, I think what he is saying is ext3
does not scale very well when you have a large number of processes
acessing file system because of locks in journal.    This is seen in
the excessive idle time.  By comparison, ext2 does not have this
issue.

Tim
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