From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:57:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:57:13 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.0.238]:45840 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:56:21 -0400 From: Nikita Danilov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15284.36676.918419.684442@beta.reiserfs.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:55:00 +0400 To: Matt Bernstein Cc: , Reiserfs mail-list Subject: Re: weirdness in reiserfs In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.4 (patch 3) "Academic Rigor" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt Bernstein writes: > I have a 240GB reiserfs ataraid partition on one of my servers (2.4.9-ac10 > + ext3 0.9.9 + ext3 speedup + ext3 "experimental VM patch" + jfs 1.0.4), > which I had populated with lots of little files, probably huge amounts of > tail-packing going on. > > I deleted a tarball of one of my directories; I forget how big the file > was, but I reckon it was of the order of 25GB. It took long enough (over > an hour) that I went to the pub with fingers crossed instead of nursing > it. While it was deleting vmstat 1 was showing bi= ~ 2000 and bo= ~ 20000, > so it was hammering away. Fine, I thought, it's a big file; I don't do > this sort of thing often, maybe the stuff needed to delete such a big file > is bigger than the journal size or something. But.. the partition was > otherwise inaccessible with processes just blocking. Oddly df worked > though, so I could watch my use of the filesystem going down! Were there reiserfs-related messages in the kernel log? > > So.. I came back in this morning and things had recovered. Weird. Could > the "experimental VM patch" mentioned on the ext3 for 2.4 page be a little > too experimental? Sorry to be so vague... > > Matt Nikita. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/