On Wednesday 05 July 2006 05:43, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the silly subject, but did you ever experience the following?: > > i have a fileserver, i copy a file to it - let's say 600MB. > > So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the > cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time > - during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for > any other IO. I'm playing an mp3 from the very same fileserver. It stops > playing, because the machine does answer the read-requests. > > So what's going on here? > > Why does Linux write so huge amounts of data to the disk? Why does Linux > not stop writing for a while to fullfil the read-requests? And so on ... > > Any idea, on how to imrpove that?
using the cfq or deadline io-scheduler? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
