Re: high load, no bottleneck

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:51:03PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> >> Yes, I run 24 concurent tar -czf as a test.
> > But those shouldn't do small synchronous writes, should they?
> 
> Depends.  Is the filesystem mounted noatime (or read-only)?  If not,
> there are going to be atime updates, and don't all inode updates get
> done synchronously?  Or am I misunderstanding something?

Atime updates are deferred.

Joerg