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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: The Infamous Reiser4-randomly-blocks-for-ages-and-writes-the-hd-continously-in-the-mean-while
 now with a btrace log! (hope it helps)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:59:30 -0400
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=A3ukasz Mierzwa wrote:
> Dnia Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:48:59 +0200, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> =

> napisa=B3:
>=20
>> Vesa Kaihlavirta wrote:
>>
>>> Incidentally, I've witnessed similar behaviour in various simple tasks,
>>> e.g. writing
>>> entries to an sqlite database, or receiving mail from pop3 in=20
>>> thunderbird.
>>
>> Sounds like fsync issues.  That is being worked on.
>=20
> I'm think it's writeout that's involved, I tried to disable fsync and it =

> helped for apps that are calling fsync to keep data integrity (like=20
> sqlite) but it also happens when I'm downloading files using rtorrent=20
> which does not call fsync but generetes many little writes.

Hmm.  Fragmentation, maybe?  Is this easily reproduceable with a=20
freshly-formatted fs?

I'm just guessing here...