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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Erik Elmore <lk@bigsexymo.com>
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Subject: Re: EXT3 - freeze ups during disk writes
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:47:19AM -0600, Erik Elmore wrote:
> Ever since I started using ext3fs, whenever there is a disk write, the 
> kernel sucks up all of the CPU thereby preempting everything and causing 
> the PC to freeze momentarily.  Could this possibly be caused by the 
> journaling code in ext3?
> 

You really need to give kernel version, gcc version and what things were
happening at the time.

I can think of five different things that this general description has
brought up.

mf
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