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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:00:54PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
>> 5. Does anybody know if I can set dirty_background_ratio to 0.5? As we 
>> have 12 GB RAM and rather slow disks 0,5% would result in a maximum of 
>> 61MB dirty pages.   
>
> Nope.  Linux has absolutely terrible controls for this critical  
> performance parameter.   The sort of multi-second spikes you're seeing  
> are extremely common and very difficult to get rid of.

Another relevent parameter is /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs.
By default linux only wakes up once every 5 seconds to check if there
is stuff to write out. I have found that reducing this tends to smooth
out bursty spikes. However, see:

http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm

which indicates that kernel may try to defeat you here...

Have a nice day,
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