From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 causes system freeze for 1-2 seconds
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:08:36 +0400
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sbenni@gmx.de wrote:

Hello.

>Hello,
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>I have a 120Gb partition with reiser4. If I start a command like "cp <500mb file> dd" within it the system frequently freezes for 1-2 seconds and ent:hda8! uses nearly 100% cpu. This causes the sound output from xmms to be interrupted and my mouse freezes also. If i renice X and xmms to -10 it is okay. 
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>Is this the desired behaviour ?
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No.

>Can I do sth. else than renicing all time critical programs ?
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>My system is a debian amd64 with linux-2.6.16-mm2.
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How much RAM is available in your system?
If this is much more then 512M, then boot with "mem=512M", and let
us know if this freeze still takes place (to make sure this is because of
unwisely assigned atom_max_size).

Thanks,
Edward.

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>Best Regards
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>Benni
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