On Sun, 21 May 2006 12:39:05 +0200 Maximilian Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kernel-Patch: reiser4-for-2.6.16-2.patch.gz > > kernel BUG at fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:80! > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] > [...] > > > > I thought that maybe someone with greater insight than I might be > interested in the attached kernel dump. > I don't know how to reproduce this - the only thing I can say is, > that I had several reiser4 partitions under heavy load. (Now I > changed to reiserfs... Too many problems with reiser4 during the last > days.. :-( ) This was a really frequent matter during the last two weeks. Please look for the patches that were posted. > I noticed another thing: using reiser4 for some days on my laptop > rendered kopete (instant messaging application) nearly unresponsive. > Looking at the output of strace it seems that the frequent use of > fsync() (in sqlite) causes heavy i/o with reiser4. This problem does > not occur with ext3 or reiserfs... This is a known issue. fsync() and sync() generate a lot of seeking, and are painfully slow. I have the same problems with postgresql's vacuum and db4 open/close here. Regards, -- Jindrich Makovicka
