On 06/24/2011 11:18 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
sync=14525.296 s, total=14786.868 s
Whaaaaaaaaat!? 6% of 8GB is just shy of 500MB. That's not a small amount, exactly, but it took 14525 seconds to call syncs for those writes? What kind of ridiculous IO would cause something like that? That's even way beyond an OS-level dirty buffer flush on a massive system. Wow!
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