Re: Linux 2.6.29

Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24T09:33:20Z

* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > posted to the list earlier trying to see if there was anything that
> > could be done to help my specific case. I've got a system where if
> > someone starts writing out a large file, it kills client NFS writes.
> > Makes the system unusable:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123732127919368&w=2
>
> I have not had this problem since I applied Arjan's (for some reason
> repeatedly rejected) patch to change the ioprio of the various writeback
> daemons. Under some loads changing to the noop I/O scheduler also seems
> to help (as do most of the non default ones)

(link would be useful)

Ingo