On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:55:05 +0200 (EET), <samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi>
said:
> 2.2.2-pre2 seems to be again aggressively (not as bad as < 2.2.0-final
> though) throwing out data pages in preference of cache pages. This can
> be produced by running bonnie. Neither 2.2.1 nor 2.2.0-ac2 behaved this
> badly.
> Now, for the kpiod matter. I haven't dug any deeper into this issue but
> I guess it is because of kpiod since this didn't happen before when I
> was running 2.2.1.
No. kpiod has absolutely no impact at all unless you have lots of
writable memory mapped files.
> When running bonnie just after the "Rewriting intelligently phase"
> when bonnie begins the "reading with getc()..." my machine gets
> totally inresponsive for 30 seconds or so.
This is an old problem and has been around since 2.2.0. It concerns
writing to the buffer cache, not kpiod. You _will_ be able to reproduce
this on 2.2.1 or 2.2.0-ac2 if you recreate identical running conditions.
We have fixes under testing... watch this space.
--Stephen
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