Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... | From | Chris Mason <> | Date | 28 May 2003 10:58:41 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:33, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On UP boxes it's possible the requests are starving in the drive, SCSI > > users should try with the max tags set down to something sensible, > > between 8 and 32. > > > > IDE people can try lowering the max_kb_per_request paramater in > > /proc/ide/<drive>/settings, but this should only affect starvation with > > the writeback cache on. > > > > I made a patch a while ago that timed how long people spent waiting in > > __get_request_wait, it might help us figure out where the starvation is > > really happening. > > But this seems totally unrelated to the reported problems, we are > talking about complete stalls of the mouse. No amount of io starvation > should provoke something like that.
Well, if it wasn't io related starvation, andrew's batch requests patch wouldn't change things. I'm hoping the stats patch will get us some numbers to go along with the perceived stalls, almost done merging.
-chris
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