Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-20 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 08/18/2011 10:38 AM, Chris Mason wrote: Excerpts from Andrew Guertin's message of 2011-08-11 21:13:18 -0400: On 08/09/2011 05:29 PM, Andrew Guertin wrote: I have not tried 3.1-rc1, but plan to soon. I've tested now, this does still occur in 3.1-rc1. Ok, I had high hopes that

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 08/18/2011 03:29 AM, Andrew Guertin wrote: > I have not seen slowdowns on 2.6.38. More specifically, I observe the > following behaviors after commit 4e69b59: > > * Many processes occasionally hang for a short time > * When this happens, my cpu monitor shows a short burst

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 08/17/2011 10:41 PM, Anand Jain wrote: Dave, good to have a test case on the 3.0 kernel. do you have btrfs as root fs ? and can you show how are you using the btrfs mainly I would need 'btrfs fi show' let me try if I can reproduce. Thanks, Anand Personally, I find that large compiles are v

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 08/18/2011 02:44 AM, youagree wrote: Also, a patch by Josef Bacik was an attempt for fixing this, but no one reported about testing it on an affected system, it did not eliminate the slowdowns for me: PLEASE TEST: Everybody who is seeing weird and long hangs news://news.gmane.org:119/4e36c47e

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-17 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 08/17/2011 10:29 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Andrew Guertin on 08/17/2011 09:24 AM wrote: >> I (and presumably others) haven't >> been able to upgrade my kernel past 2.6.38 because of this. > > I'm running kernel 3.0 (Fedora 15's 2.6.40) on two boxes

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-17 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 08/09/2011 05:29 PM, Andrew Guertin wrote: > On 06/21/2011 01:15 PM, Jan Stilow wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Nirbheek Chauhan gentoo.org> writes: >>> [...] >>> >>> Every few minutes, (I guess) when applications do fsync (firefox, >>>

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-11 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 08/09/2011 05:29 PM, Andrew Guertin wrote: > I have not tried 3.1-rc1, but plan to soon. I've tested now, this does still occur in 3.1-rc1. --Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-09 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 06/21/2011 01:15 PM, Jan Stilow wrote: > Hello, > > Nirbheek Chauhan gentoo.org> writes: >> [...] >> >> Every few minutes, (I guess) when applications do fsync (firefox, >> xchat, vim, etc), all applications that use fsync() hang for several >> seconds, and applications that use general IO suf