Re: EXT3 - freeze ups during disk writes

Erik Elmore (lk@bigsexymo.com)
Sat, 1 Dec 2001 12:14:47 -0600 (CST)


ahhhh... woops... every official kernel since ext3 made it into the
official tree, 2.4.14 if memory serves. I'm using gcc 2.95.3. And to
clarify the bug, say on a large disk write, the pause isn't constant,
it just pauses for a second every few seconds during the write. For
smaller writes, it will pause only once, I assume while performing the
actual write to disk.

Erik

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> 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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