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From: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
To: butdiene <butdiene@yahoo.com>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiser4 mount options
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:12:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476E6CE2.7030004@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14476466.post@talk.nabble.com>

butdiene wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I run reiser4 on a laptop. I got serious fsync/flush problem.
>
>almost randomly, the hard drive would run busy for minutes to dozens of
>minutes. while the computer is still responsive during this period, but
>firefox would hang until the hard gets idle again.
>  
>

Hm.. firefox is fsync-bound app?

>I guess I can set mount options to improve the situation.
>  
>

That hang can have a complex nature.

Well, try to play with the mount option "tmgr.atom_max_size=N",
where N is atom size in blocks (by default it is total RAM pages / 4).
Look at /proc/mounts to make sure that your changes take effect.

If it doesn't help, then let me know.

Thanks,
Edward.

>Any suggestion is appreciated.
>
>thanks
>  
>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-23 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-23  7:45 reiser4 mount options butdiene
2007-12-23 14:12 ` Edward Shishkin [this message]
2007-12-24  0:15   ` butdiene
2007-12-24  0:38     ` Edward Shishkin
2007-12-24  5:53       ` butdiene
2007-12-24 14:28         ` Edward Shishkin
2007-12-24 17:34           ` Zan Lynx
2007-12-25  4:01             ` butdiene
2007-12-26  0:15               ` butdiene
2007-12-26 14:14                 ` butdiene
2007-12-26 20:35                 ` Edward Shishkin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-19  0:12 Ritesh Raj Sarraf
2005-09-19  0:53 ` michael chang
2005-09-19 14:52 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev

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