On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 07:58:13AM -0300, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Richard Braun, le Wed 04 Jul 2012 08:22:13 +0200, a écrit : > > It's also quite a lot of heap too, and every 5 seconds. We should > > consider increasing the interval between global syncs to reduce the > > impact of this potentially heavy operation. > > It would increase the amount of work you loose on crash. Did you measure > the CPU use that you get with a typical filesystem, by e.g. touching a > file every 4 seconds to trigger the sync all the time?
No. > I guess the real fix would be to be better at knowing which inodes need > to be recorded, and filter on that. Yes, hence the comment in my patch, but I leave that as an exercice for another motivated hacker. -- Richard Braun
