Weird disk idling

2013-05-25 Thread Fredrik Tolf
the dmesg.) The kernel version is 3.7.1, and the scheduler is CFQ. Thanks for reading! -- Fredrik Tolf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majord

Re: I/O blocked while dirty pages are being flushed

2013-03-25 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Eric Wong wrote: Fredrik Tolf wrote: It is worth noting, also, that this seems to be a situation introduced somewhere between 2.6.26 and 2.6.32, because I started noticing it when I upgraded from Debian 5.0 to 6.0. I've since tried it on 3.2.0, 3.5.4 and 3.7.1, a

Re: I/O blocked while dirty pages are being flushed

2013-03-25 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Bart Van Assche wrote: On 03/24/13 06:12, Fredrik Tolf wrote: While this flush is running, I find that many a process goes into disk sleep waiting for the flush to complete. This includes the process manipulating the mmapped file whenever it tries to redirty a page

I/O blocked while dirty pages are being flushed

2013-03-23 Thread Fredrik Tolf
don't support kernels older than 2.6.32, unfortunately. I'm sorry, also, if this is the completely wrong list for such discussions, but I couldn't find another one to match better. Thanks for reading my wall of text! -- Fredrik Tolf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Fredrik Tolf
killed! Now, I can't really speak for reiser4, but it doesn't seem too incredible that it would be flushing page usage or rebalancing some tree or something like that. As long as it is niced down (I dunno if it actually is, though...), that shouldn't be a problem. HTH Fredrik Tolf &

Missing include file in linux/ixjuser.h

2005-03-07 Thread Fredrik Tolf
compiling user-space programs that uses ixjuser.h. Including linux/compiler.h in ixjuser.h solves the problem. Fredrik Tolf - 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/m

ipt_owner panic on 2.6.10-1.12_FC2

2005-02-23 Thread Fredrik Tolf
m the message that this panic is because one thread tries to lock the same lock twice, but I've always thought that Linux spinlocks are recursively lockable. Am I just wrong about them being recursively lockable, or does this panic have another cause? Thanks for your time! Fredrik Tolf