On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 04:28 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Every few minutes, (I guess) when applications do fsync (firefox, > xchat, vim, etc), all applications that use fsync() hang for several > seconds, and applications that use general IO suffer extreme > slowdowns. iotop shows various combinations of the processes listed > below doing writes, and the total write as 2-3MB/s.
I have experienced this too. It /seemed/ to help removing a lot of snapshots (i have hundreds that i didn't really need). Would it be stupid to try disabling fsync like described at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1103926.html ? I don't know of the consequences... but it would prove your theory? ~mck -- “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” - Howard Aiken | http://semb.wever.org | http://sesat.no | http://tech.finn.no | Java XSS Filter
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