> Alternate theory - serious fsync performance issue > > I don't know if it's related, but there is a lot of recent discussion > related to fsync causing large delays in ext3. Linus is saying his > highspeed SDD is seeing multisecond delays. He is very frustrated > because the SDD should be more or less instantaneous. > > The current thread is http://markmail.org/message/adiyz3lri6tlueaf > > In one of the other threads I saw someone saying that in one test they > had a fsync() call take minutes to return. Apparently no one yet > fully understands what is going on. Seems like something that could > in some way be related to what you are seeing. Well, it could be. I tried flushing the cashes numerous times while testing, but I never could see it made a difference one way or the other. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html