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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:35:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Poor interactive performance with I/O loads with fsync()ing
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:27:19 +0100, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> It's also been my sneaking suspicion that swap is involved. I had lots
> of RAM in anything I use, even the laptop and workstation. I'll try and
> run some tests with lower memory and force it into swap, I've seen nasty
> hangs that way.
> 
Find out anything useful?

- Ben