[TriLUG] load shooting up on large sequential copies

[Jon Carnes]

Not much help, but I know there are some tuning parameters you can apply
to certain ext3 partitions to help with large I/O operations.  I usually
just make those partitions ext2.

I almost always make /var ext2 especially on mail server or proxy
server.

500Mb is so small these days, that I'm surprised it is causing you any
problems.  Are the drives involved IDE?

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 13:13, Marvin Blackburn wrote:
> We have a problem where the load shoots up as well as sys cpu when we do
> some large sequential copies.
> We are copying two 500MB files from point a to point b.  Both filesystems
> are ext3 on raid 5.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on what kernel tuneables might help with this
> problem, or what mount options my be helpful.
> Thanks.
>