Hi Alexander, Thank you for your tests. Alexander Krause: > > What I menat is something like this. > > # mkdir /mnt/aufs/overlay > > # mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/aufs/overlay > > # while true; do find /mnt/aufs/overlay/ -ls > /dev/null; done & > > # seq 100 | while read i; do yes | dd of=3D/mnt/aufs/overlay/tmp/$i count= > =3D$i; > > done # killall find > that works, i got a high system load but no load cos of pdflush. > The weird thing with kde and the overlay in aufs is, that it runns quite we= > ll=20 > for a moment and then suddenly pdflush becomes busy. > > =46or example, i started fluxbox directly via startx and everything was fin= > e for=20 > about 5 minutes. Then i startet kate from kde4 (which also starts some othe= > r=20 > kde4 programs) and pdflush becomes busy again.
Then please test above sequence for 5 minutes. > The issue is still there with ext3 but ext2 works fine. Ok, that may be important. J. R. Okajima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects