On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 17:55 -0400, Brian R Cowan wrote: > So, it is possible that either pdflush is sending the commits or us, or > that the commits are happening when the file closes, giving us one/tens of > commits instead of hundreds or thousands. That's a big difference. The > write RPCs still happen in RHEL 4, they just don't block the linker, or at > least nowhere near as often. Since there is only one application/thread > (the gcc linker) writing this file, the odds of another task getting > stalled here are minimal at best. No, you're not listening! That COMMIT is _synchronous_ and happens before you can proceed with the READ request. There is no economy of scale as you seem to assume. Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
