Re: Trouble with 2.6.13.4-reiser4-4

[Artur Makowka <juice@ursynow.2a.pl>]

Hans Reiser napisał(a):

>rvalles wrote:
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>>I've been using reiser4 for a while (since last december). Recently,
>>I've upgraded from 2.6.12 to 2.6.13.4 patched with the reiser4 -4 patch
>>available on the namesys ftp.
>>For some reason, since using this kernel, every now and then the
>>filesystem hits the disk really hard for 15 seconds or so blocking IO
>>for a program or two (I guess those that triggered the problem) and
>>slowing down IO seriously for others. It may be triggered by something
>>as easy as pasting some text from firefox to a xterm running vim, and
>>the text won't get pasted until the HD hitting ends.
>>Just in case, I've booted a recent knoppix and ran the most recent fsck
>>(thank you unionfs and apt-get) on the partition. It fixed some little
>>stuff extents-related that didn't look serious at all. It didn't fix
>>this, tho.
>>Maybe it's worth noting that there are no reiser4 related errors or
>>warnings, nor IO related, on syslog.
>>I can provide more debug-related information on request. I'm looking
>>forward for a patch against plain 2.6.14 (not -mm, that breaks stuff I
>>need and is by itself far too unstable for my taste) to see if it fixes
>>anything, too.
>>Cheers.
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>We have a patch coming out any day now that will be a lot more stable
>than what is currently the latest.
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>Vitaly, please label our latest as not very stable in the meantime.
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I have to agree with rvalles, as i also noticed very high LA and im 
using latest reiser4 patch with 2.6.13.4 kernel. this is becouse of high 
the I/O usage. I didnt know its reiser4 fault, but it seems logical ( 
other process are waiting for I/O and thats why so high LA )

becouse my machine had already high load anyways, so together with this 
bug it caused few crashes, so im just wondering - how soon there is 
going to be new patch, and is this issue already solved or beign worked on ?

i know the patch will be ready when its ready ;) but i have free hosting 
server and until its resolved i cant turn on all services.

Also, there is nothing strange in logs. Also i have to say one good 
thing about reiser4 - i had many crashes, some becouse of this bug, some 
becouse server has very high load anyways, and reiser didnt delete or 
corrupted even one file durning that. And i had to run --build-fs only 
once or twice.