Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965282AbWHOHvG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:51:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965283AbWHOHvG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:51:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:50620 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965282AbWHOHvE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:51:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:51:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrzej Szymanski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange write starvation on 2.6.17 (and other) kernels Message-Id: <20060815005100.be613254.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060815005025.22e8adfe.akpm@osdl.org> References: <44E0A69C.5030103@agh.edu.pl> <20060815005025.22e8adfe.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-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: 387 Lines: 11 On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:50:25 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > Mounting with `-o writeback' should help. err, `-o data=writeback' - 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/