Re: ReiserFS v3 choking when free space falls below 10%?

2006-07-08 Thread Jeff Mahoney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans Reiser wrote: Guys, if you run the kernel under a debugger, and get it to where you see the excessive CPU usage, and then start stepping through the bitmap code, I am sure it will be very obvious what the error is. Can anyone do that for us?

Re: ReiserFS v3 choking when free space falls below 10%?

2006-07-08 Thread Hans Reiser
By 8 iterations, I mean 8 bitmaps scanned.

Re: ReiserFS v3 choking when free space falls below 10%?

2006-07-08 Thread Hans Reiser
So limit the number of iterations of rejecting windows that are too small. Say, 8. Hans Jeff Mahoney wrote: What's happening is that we keep finding windows that are too small, which results in a lot of wasted effort. The cycle goes like this: if (unfm is_block_in_journal(s, bmap_n,