Deleting files were slow as hell too. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:39, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 29 Sep 2011 04:40:15 Spidey / Claudio wrote: >> I have lived through some lock ups in the recent past, but that's >> because I've disassembled my desktop from it's case and assembled it >> at my working table. Since both PS/2 ports of the mobo are on my mouse >> pad (yeah, short cables, tight space), I eventually pull some cable os >> slap my video card. The first time X.org locked up, but ssh'ing from >> my Maemo phone did the trick (had to disable kexec and reboot from the >> bios, though). The second time I couldn't do that, my video card >> cooler fans stopped, and I had to pull the power plug and wait a few >> moments. That time I thought that some money would be spent on a new >> motherboard or video card. But rest assured, no computer components >> were harmed in those accidents. >> >> Ending the off topic, I had lock downs and headaches when messing with >> reiser4. I'd say that recently built experimental code in the kernel >> is something that would trigger lock ups. > > I was running reiser4 for more than a year and found it rather temperamental > on my hardware (hard lock ups, corrupted fs, etc). Eventually, I replaced it > with ext4 and have not had problems since. For me reiser4 seemed to perform > better (as in faster) than ext4, in all but mounting speeds. > > YMMV > -- > Regards, > Mick >
