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From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt flush-to-disk freezes
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:22:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100818132215.GA12610@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6BC751.10506@redhat.com>

On 18.08.2010, Milan Broz wrote: 

> What is the IO scheduler for the underlying device?
> (You can try deadline or cfq with some tuning - this is
> possible to tune online).

On my system, I get the best results with these (cfq):

echo "1" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/low_latency
echo "8" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle
echo "8" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/quantum

On some systems, things improve with slice_idle set to 0.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-18 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17 18:46 [dm-crypt] dm-crypt flush-to-disk freezes Arno Wagner
2010-08-18  8:31 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-08-18 11:09   ` Rick Moritz
2010-08-18 11:43 ` Milan Broz
2010-08-18 13:18   ` Heinz Diehl
2010-08-18 14:36     ` Milan Broz
2010-08-18 13:22   ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
2010-08-18 14:12   ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-18 14:47     ` Milan Broz
2010-08-18 15:44       ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-22 19:52         ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-22 21:42           ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-08-22 21:51             ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-22 21:58               ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-08-22 22:01               ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-08-23  6:24               ` Heinz Diehl
2010-08-23  0:47             ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-23  7:13             ` Milan Broz
2010-08-25  2:40               ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-25 14:13                 ` Heinz Diehl

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