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2003 Jul 27
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data=journal with large external journals
...t putting writes on an external volume would
improve read efficiency.
I'm running kernel 2.4.21 with Andrea Arcangeli's rc8aa1 patch set
(mostly for the elevator-lowlatency patches which fix a problem with
huge amounts of cpu being used by kswapd). This patch set also includes
the akpm jbd_refile_buffer patch to transaction.c.
The symptoms are that the system chugs along for hours until the load
suddenly shoots through the ceiling (500+) as the buffer utilization
drops to nearly zero, rendering the box mostly unresponsive for several
minutes. What I suspect is happening is that my huge journal...