On 09/05/2011 06:29 PM, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:25:21PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:23:23PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
That's because dpkg is known for using (f)sync very heavily. btrfs
honours the sync request in all cases
On 08/18/2011 09:29 AM, Andrew Guertin wrote:
> * Many processes occasionally hang for a short time
> * When this happens, my cpu monitor shows a short burst of cpu activity
> (100% of 1 core) followed by a longer period of IO
> * When this happens, iotop shows [btrfs-submit-0] and [btrfs-transacti
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 b
This is most probably related to the same regression seen after 2.6.38,
my blocked comment on 3 August included an indication to that the
behavior was present in my distro 2.6.38 kernel too, it just was
appearing after a considerably longer uptime (on my desktop system using
btrfs as rootfs on an I
