Large write pauses to all writing apps when one app is streaming writes to NFS.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Experiencing paused/hung apps for minutes at a time while writing large amounts of data to NFS.
  • A large number of processes doing a buffered write stuck in balance_dirty_pages()

Environment

  • RHEL5
    • Originally seen on 2.6.18-274.12.1 (RHEL5.7)
  • NFS client

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