Notes on fdatasync for the test suite

[Martin (gzlist)]

I'm wondering if memory pressure might also be a factor to the
increasing run time? Do we have any numbers on the max resource usage
of the run vs what the box has available?

On 31/08/2011, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>
> But the fact that every-so-often we get a big spike in the run time
> seems odd. But it might be because there are other processes running? (I
> think Martin mentioned the machine is shared with U1).

Seemingly random big spikes sounds normal for fsync to me, as the work
required depends on all pending i/o not just file in question.

Martin