Re: fsync delays for a long time.

Alexander Moibenko
2002-02-14T21:27:23Z

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > > This could very well be due to request allocation starvation.
> > > > fsync is sleeping in __get_request_wait() while bonnie keeps
> > > > on stealing all the requests.
> > >
> > > That may amplify it but in the 2.2 case fsync on any sensible sized file
> > > is already horribly performing. It hits databases like solid quite badly
> > >
> > please elaborate on "sensible sized". In my case it is less then 20MB.
>
> That ought to be ok. Andrew may well be right in that case.
>
Then what is your advise. Switch to 2.4.x?