Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265842AbUALC1o (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:27:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266045AbUALC1o (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:27:44 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:24010 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265842AbUALC1n (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:27:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:27:39 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Ciaby Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kmail slowdown on 2.6.* +reiserFS (v3) Message-Id: <20040111182739.0686fbee.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200401112109.22027.ciaby@autistici.org> References: <200401112109.22027.ciaby@autistici.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 21 Ciaby 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/