On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:54:46PM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: > > I encountered something very strange last night similar to other reports > of starvation (at least different reports by John Goerzen and others, > back to June and July).
Interesting you should mention that, as I've seen a few mild cases myself. Let's compare notes... > I've got 3x 80G IDE drives in a raid5 array (150G or so usuable). > On top of that I've got LVM. No RAID going on here, but I do use LVM everywhere I possibly can. [ snip ] > Even an ls in a directory with < 20 entries would take 20+ minutes to > complete. This is on a Duron 750 with 1 GB of RAM. Anything involving Very similar to what I saw, but much more extreme. > and the system was totally usable - it would appear that writing (both I noticed my problems during runs of updatedb (for locate). That process basically reads a bunch of directories, probably stats all the files, but never actually opens the files. (I think it runs find.) I wonder if this has something to do with directories or inodes. I haven't lately noticed it with updatedb runs, but I have noticed it periodically when copying, or building ISO images or things like that. -- John (BTW, how's Boa going along these days? I think it was probably about 6 years ago I first contacted you about it.) _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
