From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Rob Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:25:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA77A20.2D28DBE7@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0f3201c2718c$750a13b0$1900a8c0@lifebook
Rob Mueller wrote:
>
> Filesystem is ext3 with one big / partition (that's a mistake
> we won't repeat, but too late now). This should be mounted
> with data=journal given the kernel command line above, though
> it's a bit hard to tell from the dmesg log:
>
It's possible tht the journal keeps on filling. When that happens,
everything has to wait for writeback into the main filesystem.
Completion of that writeback frees up journal space and then everything
can unblock.
Suggest you try data=ordered.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-12 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-12 1:12 Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel Rob Mueller
2002-10-12 1:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-10-12 2:25 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12 3:07 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12 6:37 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12 6:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12 6:52 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12 7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-13 6:14 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-13 7:27 ` Simon Kirby
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2002-10-12 3:10 Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-12 3:13 Joseph D. Wagner
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2002-10-12 6:54 ` Rob Mueller
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2002-10-13 0:49 ` Rob Mueller
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2002-10-13 6:34 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-13 7:01 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13 7:01 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 7:49 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13 7:50 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 8:16 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13 8:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 8:40 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13 8:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 8:48 ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-13 8:48 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 8:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 10:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-13 19:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-16 21:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-13 8:59 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-10-13 9:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 12:31 ` Marius Gedminas
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[not found] ` <20021013.000127.43007739.davem@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-10-13 7:24 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-13 7:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 11:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-13 18:29 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-11 22:54 Steven Roussey
2002-12-11 23:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-11 23:54 ` Steven Roussey
2002-12-12 0:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-12 0:31 ` Steven Roussey
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