Re: kmail slowdown on 2.6.* +reiserFS (v3)

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Chris Mason wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 21:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
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>>Ciaby <ciaby@autistici.org> wrote:
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>>>I all!
>>>I've recently upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6 and I've noticed a strange thing:
>>>on the 2.4 kernel, kmail run decently (i've an old k6-200).
>>>On the 2.6 kernel, kmail slowdown and take a very long time to read a mailbox.
>>>I think something changed in the reiserFS during this time...
>>>I'm not the only experiencing this problem, read this:
>>>http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1844
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>>A buglet in kmail was tripped up by some optimisations which went into
>>reiserfs.
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>>Upgrading kmail should fix it up.  Or mount the reiserfs filesystems with
>>the `nolargeio=1' mount option.
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>Actually, we've hit other problems with v3 largeio, it can confuse rpm
>badly.  The real bug is apparently in bdb, the larger io size suggested
>by the filesystem lead bdb to corrupt its own files.  I spent some time
>neck deep in the db code but couldn't track the problem down.
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>I seem to remember the XFS folks hitting exactly the same bug.
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>Hans, can I talk you into having v3 export an io size of 4k to userspace
>again?  Applications that send large ios would still use Oleg's
>optimized file write paths.
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>-chris
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why is it you don't want to "fix" bdb to lie to itself about the result 
of statfs?

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Hans