Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:27:00 +0100 (CET) | From | Martin Josefsson <> | Subject | Re: Abysmal interactive performance on 2.4.linus |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:56:42PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: > [snip] > > Seems that reiserfs is the common factor here, at least on my box. This is a 35 > > GB reiserfs filesystem, app 80% used, both large and small files. > > > > As said in my previous message, the numbers themselves don't mean squat. It is > > the large delays (the fact that user+sys <<< real) which are the problem here. > > > > Any other magic anyone wants me to perform? Hans, you reading this? > > > > Do you see/hear a lot of seeking happing during the delays?
Yup this is probably what's happening to me. I didn't think a harddrive could do so many seeks so fast :)
> If so, your Reiser partition is probably fragmented to hell...
:(
> IIRC this problem is being looked at, check some archives of lkml or reiser...
Ok, thanks
/Martin
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