Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 23:51 schrieben Sie: > Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > >Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2006 19:34 schrieb Peter Foldiak: > >>Marcel (Hilzinger), > >> > >>Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on > >>what the problem was? > > > >Yes, I wrote the article. The version I tested suffered much from the > > fsync problem. There were timeouts approx every 10 seconds, where the > > system didn't respond for a very short time (_very_ disturbing when > > watching videos). I then asked the creator of Underground Linux if he > > also had this problems and I pointet him to this list. He denied then, > > but it seems that other users did report problems with underground 022 as > > well. I didn't even know, that Underground went back to ReiserFS. > > Interesting. The reason it is interesting is because I can only > understand if it happened every 600 seconds due to an atom being > expired. If it happens every 10 seconds, then my next guess as to the > culprit would be balance_dirty_pages, and perhaps entd doing too much > work at a time. I need more data, and the exact kernel version. Hmm. > Maybe Vitaly can try installing it and trying to reproduce. > > I assume a single cpu machine? It would be interesting as a datapoint > to know if the problem goes away with a 2 cpu machine. Yes, it was a single CPU machine. I observed the problem on a similar PC, too.
Underground Linux 022 should still be available for download. -- Üdvözlettel -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Marcel Hilzinger
