On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:00:52 +0100, martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote: > I use ext4 with data=ordered, and while notmuch is writing the > Xapian database, most I/O stalls on the machine: > > - Firefox does not get any mouse events > - Vim blocks writing the viminfo file > - All disk operations queue for multiple seconds. > > So no, ext4 is not a solution. Is it just me, or should no > filesystem of this world be able to hog a system this badly? I think > the culprit is the IO-scheduler. > In my uninformed opinion, I think it more likely that the dominant factor is the page reclaim code. Even noop scheduling is pretty bad.
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