Are these processes principally btrfs-submit and btrfs-transacti in particular?
Then it may be related to my very similar issue reported earlier. On 08/18/2011 08:47 AM, Chris Samuel wrote: > On 18/08/11 00:29, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> I'm running kernel 3.0 (Fedora 15's 2.6.40) on two boxes >> and I have not seen slow downs or hangs. I use Firefox. > > I've got btrfs on an external USB drive with the 3.0.1 kernel and > I see that sync seems to take an age, according to iotop it seems > that the btrfs processes are hitting it quite hard, IIRC. > > cheers, > Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html