Re: 2.6.2-rc2 Interactivity problems with SMP + HT
From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 01/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:09:33 -0800 To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 30 January 2004 02:25, Catalin BOIE wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
> >> It might be some IDE disk I/O that results from flushing buffers
> >> or whatever. I don't see this on my SCSI boxes, but I have seen
> >> an IDE box get sluggish at times due to I/O.
> >
> >It is possible.
> >vmstat shows a lot of writes when this happen.
> >Seems that even reads hangs.
> >I remember tat I was in pine and I tried to save a small file (under
> > 1k) and it took 5-7 seconds to do it.
> >
> I'm having similar problems with kmail on the later kernels.
There's a problem with reiserfs and kmail. If you're using reiserfs, be
sure to have the latest kmail installed, or mount the filesytems with
`nolargeio=1'.
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