Re: 2.5.59-mm5

Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-25T20:34:32Z

On January 25, 2003 12:41 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > I am seeing a strange problem with mm5. This occurs both with and
> > without the anticipatory scheduler changes. What happens is I see very
> > high system times and X responds very very slowly. I first noticed this
> > when switching between folders in kmail and have seen it rebuilding db
> > files for squidguard. Here is what happened during the db rebuild (no
> > anticipatory ioscheduler):
>
> Could you please try reverting the reiserfs changes?
>
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.59/2.5.59-mm5/broken-out/
>reiserfs-readpages.patch
>
> and
>
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.59/2.5.59-mm5/broken-out/
>reiserfs_file_write.patch

Reverting reiserfs_file_write.patch seems to cure the interactivity problems.
I still see the high system times but they in themselves are not a problem.
Reverting the second patch does not change the situation. I am currently
running with reiserfs_file_write.patch removed - so far so good.

Thanks
Ed Tomlinson