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Re: Lockups during heavy disk I/O?

Subject: Re: Lockups during heavy disk I/O?
From: Paul Allen (paul.l.allen@boeing.com)
Date: Thu Jul 13 19:16:35 2000

Alvin Starr wrote:
>
> Linux has a bit of a Feature;) in that when there is a lot of disk buffers
> that need to be written out to disk, Linux will write them all out at once
> and take some time to do it. While this is happning things will generaly
> grind to a halt.

Hmmm... that's what appears to be happening. I've just never noticed
it on any other platform. I've seen Linux on SPARC and Intel, for
example, and haven't noticed this sort of thing. I routinely do large
disk-to-disk copies on my home system, for example, and never have
the mouse freeze on me. Is this specific to the Alpha port? Or,
is it related to having way too much RAM?

Thanks for the reply, by the way.

Paul 

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