latencies due to disk writes

[kalium@gmx.de]

Hello!

I'm experiencing extreme lags during disk writes. I have read somewhere (didn't save the URI, sigh) that this is actually related to bad (non-existing) write io priorities (CFQ only manages file reads).

I could imagine two quick, easy and probably quite effective ways to prevent such lags:

1.) don't flush buffers to disk at once more than necessary.

2.) relate CPU niceness to max write buffer fill level (ie. the point where it gets forced to be flushed to disk -- a conservative estimate would be much better than nothing): (100-5*nicelevel)%, ie. writes for processes having nice level 19 are blocked/delayed until the write buffer is below 5%. That way, the accounting is done at a higher and probably easier to access level.

Maybe I'm just talking nonsense, but nonetheless, here are my 2 cents.

Best regards,
Mark

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