Re: commands like "du", "df", and "btrfs fs sync" hang

[Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>]

On 1 May 2016 at 13:47, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Direct from that section of my /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
> ################################################################################
> # Virtual-machine: swap, write-cache

Hi Duncan,

You mean virtual memory.

Quoting from the kernel documentation
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
"
This file contains the documentation for the sysctl files in
/proc/sys/vm and is valid for Linux kernel version 2.6.29.

The files in this directory can be used to tune the operation
of the virtual memory (VM) subsystem of the Linux kernel and
the writeout of dirty data to disk.
"

> # vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 100
> # vm.laptop_mode = 0
> # vm.swappiness = 60
> vm.swappiness = 100
>
> # write-cache, foreground/background flushing
> # vm.dirty_ratio = 10 (% of RAM)
> # make it 3% of 16G ~ half a gig
> vm.dirty_ratio = 3
> # vm.dirty_bytes = 0
>
> # vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5 (% of RAM)
> # make it 1% of 16G ~ 160 M
> vm.dirty_background_ratio = 1
> # vm.dirty_background_bytes = 0
>
> # vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 2999 (30 sec)
> # vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 499 (5 sec)
> # make it 10 sec
> vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 1000
> ################################################################################

Thanks,
Mike