The system originally was running ext3 until we flattened it and reinstalled RedHat with the reiser file system. I have other systems not running reiser which perform just fine. The problem seems to be pointed at the filesystem

I had presumed there was something I needed to tweak there.

Dave Poirier wrote:

May I ask how is that related to ReiserFS?  Seems like a rather generic Linux problem to me, maybe you could try the Red Hat forums, mailing lists or IRC channels.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Carreiro <frank.carreiro@investools.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2004 9:52 am
Subject: Can't kill a process

I have a rather intense process that has been running since last 
night.  
I wanted to kill it since it's eating up my cpu however kill and 
kill -9 
don't seem to be doing the trick.

I'm running the reiser 3.6.25 file system on a RedHat Advanced 
Server 
(2.1) with 2.4.9-3.38smp kernel.

It's simply counting the time away as it copies files to disk.  
I've 
reniced it to 15.  It's also on a raid 5 array and I've modified 
my 
min/max speed to 10/50.  Performance has improved however the 
process is 
still running. 

Thoughts?

thx