tis 2010-06-01 klockan 12:38 +0000 skrev sameer khan:
> We are using 2 x 320GB SATA2 with reiserfs 3.6. The machine experiences high iowait when the cache reaches cache_swap_low. What we have observed that it is constantly stuck at cache_swap_low. If we purge the cache it starts to work fine again until cache hits cache_swap_low mark.
That's because the I/O load almost doubles then.. removing content from
a filesystem is nearly as expensive as writing it in the first place.
Regards
Henrik
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