From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: 2.5.59-mm5 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:34:32 -0500 References: <20030123195044.47c51d39.akpm@digeo.com> <200301251232.15866.tomlins@cam.org> <20030125094141.1e2b1de3.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030125094141.1e2b1de3.akpm@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200301251534.32447.tomlins@cam.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On January 25, 2003 12:41 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I am seeing a strange problem with mm5. This occurs both with and > > without the anticipatory scheduler changes. What happens is I see very > > high system times and X responds very very slowly. I first noticed this > > when switching between folders in kmail and have seen it rebuilding db > > files for squidguard. Here is what happened during the db rebuild (no > > anticipatory ioscheduler): > > Could you please try reverting the reiserfs changes? > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.59/2.5.59-mm5/broken-out/ >reiserfs-readpages.patch > > and > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.59/2.5.59-mm5/broken-out/ >reiserfs_file_write.patch Reverting reiserfs_file_write.patch seems to cure the interactivity problems. I still see the high system times but they in themselves are not a problem. Reverting the second patch does not change the situation. I am currently running with reiserfs_file_write.patch removed - so far so good. Thanks Ed Tomlinson -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/