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Dirty and cleaning of dirty data

DISCUSSION Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG 2 participants 2 messages Oct 22, 2013 – May 22, 2014 bcache (block layer cache)

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Hi,

while having a system under heavystress - i was seeing the following:

Dirty Data on SSD: 35GB data
Writes to sata disk mostly 0-4mb/s

Why does bcache not start to clean this data to get free ssd space?

Right now the system is pretty slow as the caching device is very dirty.

Stefan

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Quoted 5 lines · Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG

Hi,

while having a system under heavystress - i was seeing the following:

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Dirty Data on SSD: 35GB data
Writes to sata disk mostly 0-4mb/s

Why does bcache not start to clean this data to get free ssd space?

Right now the system is pretty slow as the caching device is very dirty.

Stefan

hi mate,

do U solve that problem?
I'm testing bcache and now have same problem and don't know how to solve it... so how to speed up (100x-400x times!!!!)

any idea how to speed up that dirty cache cleaning now and in the future?

regards
NTS