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From: "Alexey Polyakov" <alexey.polyakov@gmail.com>
To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: reiser4 resize
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:39:08 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5d90b2a0609200039g70c40f5bvb374b5f15b42988d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45102ED6.6080209@slaphack.com>

On 9/19/06, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> When I have over a
> gig of RAM free (not even buffer/cache, but _free_), and am trying to
> download anything over BitTorrent, even if it's less than 200 megs, the
> disk thrashes so badly that the system is really only usable for web and
> email.  Even movies will occasionally stall when this is happening, and
> by "occasionally", I mean every minute or so.

Do you have this problem on plain vanilla + reiser4? I think some
out-of-tree patches (like adaptive readahead?) may result in such
behaviour, independent of file system.
With a free gig of RAM reiser4 shouldn't access disk a lot, only during flushes.

-- 
Alexey Polyakov

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-20  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-19  1:12 reiser4 resize Jack Byer
2006-09-19 13:23 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2006-09-19 17:54   ` David Masover
2006-09-20  7:39     ` Alexey Polyakov [this message]
     [not found]       ` <op.tf52pansd4os1z@localhost>
2006-09-20  9:00         ` Alexey Polyakov
2006-09-21  7:30           ` David Masover
2006-09-21  7:49             ` Łukasz Mierzwa
2006-09-21  7:52             ` Łukasz Mierzwa
2006-09-21  7:48       ` David Masover
2006-09-20  1:09   ` Jack Byer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-25 14:38 Reiser4 resize Oleg Osovitskiy
2008-01-30 20:40 ` Edward Shishkin
2008-03-02 22:39 No space left on rfs4 Christopher Sawtell
2008-03-03 20:59 ` Reiser4 resize John

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