High latencies writing to a memory mapped file

[Kinzel, David]

>> Matthias Schniedermeyer put forth on 7/27/2010 4:24 AM:
>> 
>> > We have a linux-computer with samba to act as a fileserver 
>for a few 
>> > Windows-Clients and ever since kernel 2.6.26 (Never 
>happend with 2.6.25) 
>> > the server randomly "hangs" for a few seconds (Which is more of a 
>> > problem that drives people crazy).
>> 

The server hangs, or the connections to samba do? I've found that samba
is given a ridiculously low IO priority so that any IO on the server
will pretty much cause it to stall -- be it updating locate, a backup
job, etc. 

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