[Beowulf] LSI Megaraid stalls system on very high IO?

[Christopher Samuel]

On 14/05/15 08:57, mathog wrote:

[...]
> cat /sys/block/dm*/queue/scheduler
> none
> none
[...]
> How is it possible to mount a volume, Raid or no, with no scheduler???

I think you're looking in the wrong place; you need to look at the sys
files for the disk (sda, sdb, or variations if your RAID controller
registers them differently) rather than the Device Mapper (DM) entries.
 They don't have IO schedulers associated with them.

Regarding writing the file back, I suspect you're seeing all the dirty
pages for the file being written getting charged to that process.

As for swap, could it be someone built it with a kickstart that defined
it that way?

cheers,
Chris
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