Re: open sleeps

[Brian May <brian@vpac.org>]

Sorry, repost with the weird Followup-To header (was hoping Thunderbird 
would use Mail-Followup-To but obviously not).

Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having (weird) issues with XFS, in that open(...) on certain 
> files takes 45 seconds to return. After the file has been opened, the 
> next file in the same directory takes 45 seconds. If the file was 
> recently opened it returns immediately.
>
> I thought this was a low level I/O issue, so copied the files in 
> question to a completely independent RAID array  (separate LVM, RAID, 
> controllers, disks), but the problem remains.
>
> More details at thread starting from 
> <http://lists.luv.asn.au/wws/arc/luv-main/2008-06/msg00143.html>.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Please CC me responses.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brian May