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From: "Alexey Polyakov" <alexey.polyakov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 resize
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:39:08 +0400
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.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