Solving the ext3 latency problem
Solving the ext3 latency problem
Posted Apr 15, 2009 9:34 UTC (Wed) by edschofield (guest, #39993)In reply to: Solving the ext3 latency problem by bronson
Parent article: Solving the ext3 latency problem
Yes, great article. The lkml discussion was also fascinating.
We have _severe_ latency issues with ext3 and our RAID arrays, sometimes causing our servers to appear to freeze for tens of seconds during disk writes. A safer 'writeback' mode that eliminates these latencies will be a huge win for us.