> The problem is that at the low point in the cycle, the machine is
> unusable. It is utterly unresponsive until the writes complete, which can
> take a very long time (in the case of the ppc machine, several minutes!)
> Anything that does disk I/O will block for a long time - having 'ls' take
> two minutes is not a good thing.
Can you chack how much cpu time do dbflush and kswapd get ?
> 2.2 does not exhibit this behaviour.
2.2 is much worse IMO.
Bye.
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