On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 18:17 -0500, Anjan Dave wrote:
> It's mostly a 'read' application, I increased the vm.max-readahead to
> 2048 from the default 256, after which I've not seen the CS storm,
> though it could be incidental.
Can you verify this, please?
Turn it back down again, try the test, then reset and try the test.
If that is a repeatable way of recreating one manifestation of the
problem then we will be further ahead than we are now.
Thanks,
Best Regards, Simon Riggs