* Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ah, indeed, that makes quite a bit of sense. Almost all of the > > Reiser3 code runs under the BKL, and the only other major kernel > > infrastructure that has BKL dependencies is the TTY code. Kasper, as > > a debugging matter, could you try to move that spamassassin workload > > off into a non-Reiser3 filesystem and/or disable PREEMPT_BKL? If > > that makes a noticeable difference (for the better ;) then we can > > continue figuring out what's happening exactly. > > the pricess is as this: > mail client fetches mail > mail client invokes spamasassin > if spam -> spam > else filtering > if it matches certain filters, it gets put into my imap server, which is > reiserfs.
do you have any filesystem that is not reiserfs? If yes, could you, as a test, check whether file activities on _that_ file system still cause these lags, or is the lag purely connected to the reiser3 filesystem? Ingo - 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/