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Mike Benoit wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 14:02 -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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>> Mike Benoit wrote:
>>> My desktop machine (v2.6.16, same as my MythTV box) is running with 9%
>>> free space right now and it is not experiencing any slow down. I think
>>> the problem is caused by the usage pattern of MythTV and how it
>>> simultaneously streams one or more large files to the HD in relatively
>>> small chunks over a long period of time.
>> Ok, if you run into the problem again, can you dump the metadata before
>> freeing the space? The code itself looks sound, and I'm wondering if
>> you've managed to create pathological fragmentation that's mucking
>> things up. Being able to see the fs metadata would confirm or disprove
>> that theory, and help in fixing it.
> 
> Will do, I've started a bunch of recordings so I should start seeing the
> problem again by tonight or tomorrow morning. Is there any other data
> you would like me to collect? Additional oprofile reports, vmstat
> information before the problem occurs and/or after?

Great. Any information you can provide would help quite a bit. oprofile
would be useful, as would vmstat information.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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