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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git pull on linux-next makes my system crawl to its knees and beg for mercy
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:38:20 +0100
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On Friday 18 December 2009 06:26:29 pm Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> on my kernel logs. Bewildered with this issue I set out to prove to
> myself this issue was not a 2.6.32 issue and booted other kernels,
> including Ubuntu's distro kernel on 2.6.31 and then later my own built
> fresh 2.6.27.41 kernel. The issue was reproducible on all three
> kernels!
> 
> This lead me to believe this was a system / hard drive issue and
> embraced myself for a system fix. I yet needed to prove this was

Just some hints for ruling out the system / hard drive problem.

smartctl -a /dev/sdx is your friend for checking your disk (keep an eye
on anything suspicious like re-allocated sector count going up etc.)

It could be also fs related issue that shows up only under specific
conditions (i.e. almost full partition -- some file-systems starts to
crawl when the amount of available free space gets low).

HTH
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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