On Thursday 01 April 2010 18:21:46 Greg M wrote: > Success! The bug that had been plaguing me for month is now fixed, however > the load seems to be unusually high: Same here, not a single EIO issue. > top - 11:16:31 up 52 min, 2 users, load average: 6.85, 3.83, 2.29 > Tasks: 96 total, 4 running, 92 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu0 : 0.9%us, 3.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 10.0%id, 81.7%wa, 1.3%hi, 2.6%si, > 0.0%st > Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st > Cpu2 : 1.7%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.7%id, 1.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st > Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 34.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 65.1%si, > 0.0%st > Mem: 4057892k total, 2616856k used, 1441036k free, 1087752k buffers > Swap: 2104504k total, 0k used, 2104504k free, 1112304k cached > > >From what I can tell, this is due to massive writes on the disk [...] > Hopefully it will settle down. On my side, appart from the normal 're-caching' of the data after a fresh ext4 reformating I have not seen unusual write-load. > Also - Is it possible to use a RAMdisk for /var/fscache? > > This would obviously provide 4GB of super fast caching . > > Greg Isn't this supposed to be the buffer-cache job ? :-) -- RD -- Linux-cachefs mailing list Linux-cachefs@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cachefs
