>From the timestamps, that's decaying way too fast. Looks like a bug.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Adam Berkan <[email protected]> wrote:
> The /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_total/bypassed should accumulate
> (notice the stats_total), but stats_day only shows results with an
> exponentially weighted average with a half life of 1 day.  If your
> load varies during the day, the amount bypassed will swing up and down
> accordingly.
>
> Adam
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:31 AM, David Rhodes Clymer
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Although the doc (Documentation/bcache.txt) seems to indicate that
>> "bypassed" should contain cumulative IO for the stat period, I've
>> noticed that it does not consistently increase. In fact, it increases
>> and decreases quite a bit over a short period of time.
>>
>> root@zapazoid:~# date
>> Thu Jan 26 13:23:34 EST 2012
>> root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
>> 5.4M
>> root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
>> 9.1M
>> root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
>> 1008k
>> root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
>> 2.4M
>> root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
>> 5.1M
>> root@zapazoid:~# date
>> Thu Jan 26 13:24:44 EST 2012
>>
>>
>> This is while doing an rsync into a cached filesystem, which I would
>> imagine would entail a significant amount of sequential writes.
>>
>> Am I just misunderstanding what this is supposed to be telling me?
>>
>> -davidc
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