+ Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [13/06/03 00:59]: > are you trying it on the same disk your system is on?
Yes > couldn't it just be the fact reading becomes much slower when write > into > the disk like that? I guess Eli would say it's not supposed to happen either. > > btw you forgot to mention what sort of file system type it is > I guess journaling file systems would behave diffrently from those which > isn't? not sure though.. I'm using xfs. > > Ely Levy > System group > Hebrew University > Jerusalem Israel Moshe > > > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just tried it. It happens here as well. I have Mandrake 9.1, kernel > > 2.4.21. > > > > Moshe > > > > + Eli Billauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12/06/03 22:17]: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have addressed this issue in the past, but never got to really solve > > > this. And it's annoying me again. > > > > > > I'm running RH7.3, with a 2.4.18-3 from-the-box kernel, which in my > > > opinion doesn't meet a basic requirement to be called a multi-user or > > > multitask OS. > > > > > > The thing is, that when I go (as a simple user, not root) > > > > > > cat /dev/zero > /junk/junkfile > > > > > > the system responds very slowly after a couple of seconds, even to the > > > root user. The file grows quickly, yes, but I don't think that any > > > multiuser system should get stalled just by doing something like this. > > > And I've had a system crash as well under a similar condition. > > > > > > This demonstrates a real problem, which is that I can't do anything with > > > my Linux computer when some application works heavily on the disk. > > > > > > It has been suggested that this is a problem with the disk cache in the > > > kernel. I've also been told to upgrade my kernel to the one coming with > > > RH9.0. > > > > > > But before I make a heart transplant on my computer, I'd like to know if > > > this problem has been solved in the respective kernel. This is where you > > > can help me, with a simple test: > > > > > > Please run the command above (be careful not to fill a critical > > > partition...). And please comment on if you got a *significantly* slower > > > response after, say, 10 seconds. I'm talking about a feeling that it's > > > all stuck. > > > > > > And in order to make this useful, kindly supply your kernel version & > > > distro + any other useful info. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Eli > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
