On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:37:56PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Are you sure you need to have thrashing? AFAICT metadata + fsync heavy > workload should be enough... and there were scripts to easily repeat > that. The memory pressure is needed to force disk buffers out to disk sooner than fsync() would normally force buffers out. The scripts which I've seen induced memory pressure. If the disk is *super* aggressive at reordering writes, I suppose a heavy fsync workload might be enough on its own, but in practice, it's generally not enough. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
