10 Oct 2007 05:32
recent merge (brelse(), etc.) from vmlocking improved LFS stability
Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz <at> gmail.com>
2007-10-10 03:32:49 GMT
2007-10-10 03:32:49 GMT
After these changes, I tried LFS again, as I was curious to see if anything acted/performed differently. My observations thusfar: (1) Vastly decreased propensity to freeze/deadlock/panic during lots of metadata operations. (2) I tried turning off vfs.lfs.ignore_lazy_sync: Previously, this would result in additional instability. This is no longer the case. In fact, it seems almost as if trickle sync's behavior no longer belies its name: I'm building the source tree with -j4 now, and the interrupt rate is fairly constant. Not only that, but the HDD LED is blinking (perhaps 2-4 times per second) at a steady rate! I'm so used to it writing out all the dirty data at once that this is almost surreal. ;) There could be other recent improvements responsible for this; anyone have any ideas? Comments? If anyone wants to test LFS on -current (4.99.32 as of yesterday/today), I'd be interested if you notice the same thing. Thanks, ad <at> (and others) for the excellent work. Regards, --Blair P.S. Here are [possibly] relevant non-default sysctls that I am using:(Continue reading)
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