> > Not yet. Yours is only the second report. Possible report.
> > Please try ordered mode. The below will fix journalled
> > mode, if this is indeed the source of the problem
>
> We tried applying this patch, but no change either. Again, we've tried both
> journaled and ordered.
Hmmm.. Your vmstat output looked a lot like our mail server when we
recently tried switching it to ext3. We also saw large load spikes, but
I did not investigate it very closely. Have you tried mounting as ext2
to see if journalling is responsible?
If it's a mail server, does it use dotlocking (creation and deletion of
lots of small/empty files)? I haven't had any time recently to look at
this any further, but at the time I had guessed that this had something
to do with the constant write-out...
Simon-
[ Simon Kirby ][ Network Operations ]
[ sim@netnation.com ][ NetNation Communications ]
[ Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. ]
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