2012/7/15 suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Heinz, > > Sorry for the late response. > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 12.07.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: (...) >> If you're using cfq as your scheduler, try this in rc.local: >> >> echo "32" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/quantum >> echo "0" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle >> echo "1" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/low_latency >> echo "51200" > /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests >> >> Together with this in /etc/sysctl.conf: >> >> vm.dirty_ratio = 10 >> vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5 >> > > I tend not to try things that I don't understand. Could please outline > briefly what the above suggestions do? I would like to understand before > I try them out. > > Thanks, > When vm.dirty_ratio percent of total system memory is taken up by dirty pages (data waiting to be saved to disk), the process which is generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty data. It means, that program will be made to stop using system buffers to hide cost of writes, and to write the data to the disk. When vm.dirty_background_ratio of total system memory is taken up by dirty pages, the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out dirty data. If you keep these lower, the system will try to prevent accumulation of large amounts of data to write. Therefore, when sync comes, you will not have to wait for the accumulated data to be written to disk. vm tunables are explained here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
