Mathieu AVILA put forth on 9/23/2010 3:55 AM: > The small writes are amortized in the stream of data writes from the > application, and the application is not frozen. > (so you were right: there was a page cache issue) Given what you've described about the streaming write behavior of your application, I'd suggest you rewrite it and use O_DIRECT writes to bypass the page cache completely. You may also want to look into using the XFS realtime subvolume feature. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
