On Sunday 14 February 2010, James Cloos wrote: > Sometime between rc6 and rc7 all filesystem I/O started using 100% CPU, > usually on the order of 60% sys, 40% user. > > I've tried this with each of ext4, jfs and btrfs filesystems. All show > the same issue. > > Using dd(1) to read from the block specials directly works as well and > as fast as it always has; only reading or writing to mounted filesystems > is affected. > > Box is 32-bit x86, PentiumIII-M; drives are ide using libata. > > If the btrfs fs is mounted, the slowdown is enought to trigger the > hung_task call trace (120s) on the btrfs-transac process. > > But the regression is just as apparent when only jfs and ext4 are mounted. > > The only filesystems I've found which avoid the regression are tmpfs and > devtmpfs. > > I didn't have time to write up a report when I noticed this in rc7 but > had to boot back into rc6 for work. > > Some of the commits since rc7 looked like they might have addressed this > regression, but it persists in rc8.
I have created the bug entry at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15306 for your report. Thanks, Rafael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
