Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:35:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:35:26 -0400 Received: from loki.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE ([134.106.9.61]:50949 "EHLO walker.pmhahn.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:35:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:34:17 +0200 From: Philipp Matthias Hahn To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: faster boots? Message-ID: <20020415133417.GB1888@titan.lahn.de> In-Reply-To: <200204080057.g380vbO00868@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3CB0EF0B.14D48619@zip.com.au> <20020408095717.GB27999@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20020408174333.A28116@kushida.apsleyroad.org> <20020408124803.A14935@redhat.com> <20020409015657.A28889@kushida.apsleyroad.org> <20020409222214.GK5148@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20020412114422.A24021@kushida.apsleyroad.org> <20020412114252.GB1893@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20020412152918.A24356@kushida.apsleyroad.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: UUCP-Freunde Lahn e.V. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Moin! On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:29:18PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > This is on ext3. I wonder if journalling is causing a problem. Pavel, > are you running ext3? ext3 ignored kflushd and writes directly to the hard-disk every 30 s. Reading the ext2-devel mailing list at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ext2-devel, the problem is known and being worked on. Until then, don't use journalling on disk, you want to spin down. BYtE Philipp -- Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg Betriebssysteme und verteilte Systeme - 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/