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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Cc: util@deuroconsult.ro, hyatt@cis.uab.edu, piggin@cyberone.com.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc2 Interactivity problems with SMP + HT
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:09:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040130120933.5d2d6d34.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401301033.43909.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 30 January 2004 02:25, Catalin BOIE wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
> >> It might be some IDE disk I/O that results from flushing buffers
> >> or whatever.  I don't see this on my SCSI boxes, but I have seen
> >> an IDE box get sluggish at times due to I/O.
> >
> >It is possible.
> >vmstat shows a lot of writes when this happen.
> >Seems that even reads hangs.
> >I remember tat I was in pine and I tried to save a small file (under
> > 1k) and it took 5-7 seconds to do it.
> >
> I'm having similar problems with kmail on the later kernels.

There's a problem with reiserfs and kmail.  If you're using reiserfs, be
sure to have the latest kmail installed, or mount the filesytems with
`nolargeio=1'.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-30 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-29 10:44 2.6.2-rc2 Interactivity problems with SMP + HT Catalin BOIE
2004-01-29 10:49 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-29 11:35   ` Catalin BOIE
2004-01-29 15:02   ` Robert M. Hyatt
2004-01-30  7:25     ` Catalin BOIE
2004-01-30 15:33       ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-30 20:09         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-01 21:00       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-02 13:03         ` Catalin BOIE

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