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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:27:10 -0400
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Terrible VM in 2.4.11+?
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:11:37AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> as of the last stable version 2.4.18 VM management does not work for me
> properly. I have Athlon system with 512MB ram, 2.4.18 kernel without any
> additional patches.
> 
> I run following sequence of commands:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp bs=1M count=512 &
> find / -print &
>  { wait a few seconds }
> sync
> 
> at this point find stops completely or at least almost stops.
> 
> The same if I copy from /dev/hdf to /dev/hda. XOSVIEW shows only reading or only

Wow, this is the same problem I was having!  Checkout the thread 'sync
slowness. ext3 on VIA vt82c686b'.  Some said it was my harddrive, but
this morning I noticed the problem is gone!

After I copy the file, sync returns right away.  I'm running
2.4.19-rc1aa1 now.

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