On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:45:16PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > The following strange behavior can be observed: > > 1. large file is written > 2. after 30 seconds, nr_dirty goes down by 1024 > 3. then for some time (< 30 sec) nothing happens (disk idle) > 4. then nr_dirty again goes down by 1024 > 5. repeat from 3. until whole file is written > > So basically a 4Mbyte chunk of the file is written every 30 seconds. > I'm quite sure this is not the intended behavior. > > The reason seems to be that __sync_single_inode() will move the > partially written inode from s_io onto s_dirty, and sync_sb_inode() > will not splice it back onto s_io until the rest of the inodes on s_io > has been processed. It's been doing this for a long time. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113919849421679&w=2 Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
