From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:36:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509231036.16921.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509221959.j8MJxJsY010193@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:59, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Am seeing reproducible wedging up when writing large (20M+) files to an
> ext3 file system. Oddly enough, if something *else* writes files to the
> file system as well, it will unwedge for a while and make progress. Also,
> a 'sync' command will relieve things temporarily - but after a few
> megabytes it comes to a halt again. Looks like a borkage someplace not
> causing it to actually finish pushing dirty file pages out - gkrellm
> reports little/no disk activity in progress. File activity on *other*
> filesystems continues unimpeded.
Could be the write throttling patches.
Try backing these out (in this order I think):
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc2/2.6.14-rc2-mm1/broken-out/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-1-tweaks.patch
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc2/2.6.14-rc2-mm1/broken-out/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-1.patch
Cheers,
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-23 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-22 19:59 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-23 0:36 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2005-09-23 7:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-23 8:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-09-23 14:24 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-09-23 9:45 ` Con Kolivas
2005-09-23 15:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-09-23 19:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-23 20:57 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-09-23 20:59 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-09-23 21:46 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-09-26 8:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-09-28 22:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-10-01 0:27 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-10-02 10:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-10-02 10:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-10-02 13:51 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-10-03 18:06 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-10-03 18:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-10-10 17:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-10-10 17:21 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-10-03 1:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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