Jesper Krogh wrote:
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> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> I cannot reproduce it on other disks attached to the same server or on
>>> other servers attached to similar disksystems.
>> 
>> I guess it would be interesting to remount that filesystem with `noatime'
>> to eliminate the last bit of I/O and block-=realted code.
> 
> It is allready mounted noatime:
> /dev/mapper/fx1200_vg-fx1200_lv on /z/fx1200 type ext3 (rw,noatime)

Watching vmstat 1 while running the program confirms that there are 
absolutely no block i/o. Everything happens purely in the cache of the OS.

Jesper
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