Hi,
For me reiser4 is working perfectly on Vanilla 2.6.14.2, all the testers
who I sent the new kernel to are reporting excellent performance and
reliability.
Could you explain a bit further the way I could reproduce this ?
Thanks
JP
Craig Shelley wrote:
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:06 +0000, John Gilmore wrote:
Oh, BTW. "The slowdown" as I called it is still there. I guess I spoke to
soon. The specific symptom is that the effected process locks for a time,
usually just a second or two, but sometimes a minute or two and and at least
once for many many minutes. I think that the crash (soft lockup) that I
reported earlier is related as well. And it sounds like the comment that
rvalles had about lockups with mmaped files, except that it doesn't lock up
permanently. Just for a second or three usually.
Hi,
I am sorry to say that I am having the same slowdown issue with Reiser4
and kernel 2.6.14.2. It seems that my problem is not related to the I/O
scheduler algorithm as I have tried both cfq and anticipatory.
The I/O activity seems to come in long bursts lasting up to 15 seconds,
and is unpredictable. The system almost grinds to a halt while the burst
of I/O is taking place, which can be quite annoying while typing.
There are no warnings in dmesg/syslog and the filesystem is clean.
Sometimes the burst of I/O activity occurs in a different form, with
short bursts every second, lasting about 10 seconds. Approx 30% duty
cycle. When a burst occurs in this form, it tends not to lock processes
as much.
The general sound of the drive when a burst is in progress is that of
heavy head movement, as if the drive is repeatedly seeking between two
or three locations.
Also, a thing which I noticed a while back, and may not be related in
any way to Reiser4.. When I re-size the columns in Evolution Mail, I get
continuous hard disk activity during the re-size. This hard disk
activity stops either when I release the mouse or hold it still with the
button down. Just wondering if anyone else gets the same thing.
Regards,
