Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up | Date | Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:36:16 +1000 |
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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:59, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > Am seeing reproducible wedging up when writing large (20M+) files to an > ext3 file system. Oddly enough, if something *else* writes files to the > file system as well, it will unwedge for a while and make progress. Also, > a 'sync' command will relieve things temporarily - but after a few > megabytes it comes to a halt again. Looks like a borkage someplace not > causing it to actually finish pushing dirty file pages out - gkrellm > reports little/no disk activity in progress. File activity on *other* > filesystems continues unimpeded.
Could be the write throttling patches.
Try backing these out (in this order I think):
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc2/2.6.14-rc2-mm1/broken-out/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-1-tweaks.patch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc2/2.6.14-rc2-mm1/broken-out/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-1.patch
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