Re: kmail slowdown on 2.6.* +reiserFS (v3)

From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 01/12/04

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    Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:27:39 -0800
    To: Ciaby <ciaby@autistici.org>
    
    

    Ciaby <ciaby@autistici.org> wrote:
    >
    > I all!
    > I've recently upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6 and I've noticed a strange thing:
    > on the 2.4 kernel, kmail run decently (i've an old k6-200).
    > On the 2.6 kernel, kmail slowdown and take a very long time to read a mailbox.
    > I think something changed in the reiserFS during this time...
    > I'm not the only experiencing this problem, read this:
    > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1844

    A buglet in kmail was tripped up by some optimisations which went into
    reiserfs.

    Upgrading kmail should fix it up. Or mount the reiserfs filesystems with
    the `nolargeio=1' mount option.

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