With Matthias state fix this should not happen that often.
> - Swapping.
Maybe there is a better solution to avoid unnecessary page I/O ...
the best solution is to add ram :-)
> - Break read-ahead.
>
> In my opinion, if a so simple solution would fix *really* the problem, it
> would have been discovered and applied since months.
The meta problem is: many of the developers have much more ram as the most
high loaded servers out there ... some of them do not need any swap space ;^)
>
> Just try to untar some large files from disk to disk and let us know what
> happens (Or try some benchmarks like Bonnie ) ...
Sorry ... a rock stabel 2.0.31 is needed. Maybe with the buffer code
out of 2.0.29 _PLUS_ the fixes applied in pre-patch-2.0.31-2 to track
the bugs in 2.0.29 down.
Werner