Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: RFC - how to balance Dirty+Writeback in the face of slow writeback. | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:47:03 +0200 |
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> > Ouch. > > I suspect we are going to see more of this, as USB drive for backups > > is probably a very attractive option for many. > > I can't see how this would occur on a 2.6 kernel
I still got the traces to prove it: http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/usb-loop-copy-stall-1
e.g. notice the lynx which is stuck in a m/atime update. It was stalling for a quite long time.
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