[mythtv-users] pdflush is killing me

Mark Lehrer mark at knm.org
Wed Feb 7 17:51:14 UTC 2007


My initial results from resetting dirty_expire_centisecs and
dirty_writeback_centisecs are excellent.  I set them to 300 and 50,
and the pauses seem to have gone away.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Mark


On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:34:27PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> >>Experience with Ext3 data journaling indicates that dropping  
> >>expire/writeback
> >>can help to smooth out I/O:
> >>
> >>vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = {300-1000}
> >>vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = {50-100}



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