Looking for some ideas on how to keep Linux from becoming largely unresponsive when creating large files. What happens is as the new file is being created the I/O buffer cache quickly fills up with dirty buffers. Until the kernel can flush these out to disk there is no avail buffers for I/O operations from other processes. . The most troubling manifestation of this is the transaction logging check point daemon gets *way* behind putting us as risk if we were to have a failure of some kind.
I have tried using ionice and renice to slow the file creation down as much as possible. This help a little but is still a big problem. Any ideas how to get CREATE.FILE/RESIZE to play nice on Linux? Thanks. Perry Perry Taylor Senior MV Architect ZirMed 888 West Market Street, Suite 400 Louisville, KY 40202 www.zirmed.com<http://www.zirmed.com/> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. ZirMed, Inc. has strict policies regarding the content of e-mail communications, specifically Protected Health Information, any communications containing such material will be returned to the originating party with such advisement noted. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
