Re: latencies due to disk writes

2007-02-26 Thread Mark Stier
> I'm experiencing extreme lags during disk writes. [...] Wacky idea: "ionice -n 7 -c 2" down the pdflush/swapd kernel threads. As I already wrote in my post, no disk IO scheduler cares for disk writes. So even CFQ is only a disk *IN* scheduler... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

FYI: Xen or kernel bug?

2007-04-20 Thread Mark Stier
Hello, tcp_vegas produces division by zero kernel oopses in dom0 when running a Xen-patched 2.6.16.28 kernel. I have tracked down the problem to line #256 in tcp_vegas.c: presumably due to flaky Xen timing, the rtt seems to get zero from time to time (adding 1 to the rtt variable solves the probl