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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: umount and sync delays
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:41:02 -0800
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To: Gorazd Golob <gorazdg@noviforum.si>
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Gorazd Golob wrote:

> hi!
>
> I have strangely long delay (still waiting at the time) when
> unmounting or syncing partition with reiser4. At the same time writes
> are occuring to disk subsystem - when checking vmstat and of course
> checking disk activity light ;).
>
> Why does it take so long and it will ever finish ?:)
> I don't have debug enabled and I'm using 2.6.11-mm1 kernel. Partitions
> were formated with reiser4progs 1.0.4.
>
> gorazd
>
>
Probably you just have a lot of dirty buffers in RAM and they need to
flush to disk?