On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:13:14AM +0100, Joerg Platte wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008 schrieb Fengguang Wu: > > > /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,acl) > > > tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) > > > proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > > procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > > > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) > > > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) > > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) > > > fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) > > > /dev/sda7 on /tmp type ext2 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,acl) > > > /dev/sda8 on /export type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,acl) > > > /dev/sda1 on /winxp type ntfs (rw,umask=002,gid=10000,nls=utf8) > > > > So they are ext3/ext2/ntfs. What if you umount ntfs? and ext2 if possible? > > Unmounting ntfs doesn't help, hence I converted the remaining ext2 filesystem > to ext3, modified the fstab entry accordingly and rebooted. Now everything > seems to be fine! Top reports an idle system and there is no abnormal iowait > any longer! Seems to be ext2 was causing this! Later today I can try to > remount the filesystem as ext2 to be sure the bug shows up again.
Thank you for the clue. However I cannot reproduce the bug on ext2/2.6.24-rc7. Can you provide more details? Thank you. Fengguang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
