Subject: Re: short freezing while file re-creation
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>,
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On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 12:02, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:24:54PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 
> > while experimenting around my other problem I noticed my box freezes for some
> > seconds while tar is re-creating an archive of around 70 GB size on a reiserfs
> > with 3ware-connected device.
> > This is experienced with 2.4.21-rc7. Reproducable via:
> > create BIG tar archive file (my size 70 GB) on a reiserfs
> > re-create same archive and watch box gone dead while the old archive is zapped.
> > (Gone dead means: mouse froze, keyboard froze, X froze)
> 
> Hm, I will try .
> 
> Wild guess: does this patch helps? (untessted, not even compiled, but should be safe )
> 

There are still some latency issues with io in rc7, it could be a
general problem.

-chris


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