Am 26.05.2013 07:29, schrieb Fredrik Tolf: > I'm sure you all know what the various fields are (except the first,
Hmm, I had to look at Documentation/block/stat.txt. > which is just a timestamp), so as you can see, there are 135 requests in > the queue, but no reads or writes happen, in this case, for at least 800 > ms. > > Is this behavior normal and expected, or is there something wrong here? > In the latter case, is it my hardware that is failing somehow, or can > there be some software weirdness that can be tweaked away or bugfixed? I would say thats how caches do work. You might have a look at sysctl vm which shows a lot of the knobs you can turn to change some of the aspects you see. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
