Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-05-02 Thread rvalles
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:54:34AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: Using 2.6.16.11 with reiser4 for 2.6.16-2, things are still very bad. We are trying to get a large patch out the door.If it does not fix it, please remind me of this, and we will write some (nontrivial) code that I suspect is

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-04-30 Thread rvalles
Using 2.6.16.11 with reiser4 for 2.6.16-2, things are still very bad. -- - Do you study theories? - Oh yes! Theories are fun. - How do you use them? - When I must act, theories are too slow. To act, I must know.

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread Edward Shishkin
rvalles wrote: A few months ago I posted about a problem I was having with kernels newer than 2.6.12.x, where, apparently randomly, sometimes vim or other programs would be blocked for more than a minute, and during the entire blockage, the disk would appear to be writing data. Since I saw

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread rvalles
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:41:40PM +0400, Edward Shishkin wrote: rvalles wrote: A few months ago I posted about a problem I was having with kernels newer than 2.6.12.x, where, apparently randomly, sometimes vim or other programs would be blocked for more than a minute, and during the entire

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread Sergey Ivanov
Edward Shishkin wrote: Sergey Ivanov wrote: Edward Shishkin wrote: Hello. Would you please try the attached patch against 2.6.16.1+reiser4-for-2.6.16-1 Edward. Edward, can you, please, put patch somewhere in ftp.namesys.com,

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread Hans Reiser
rvalles wrote: A few months ago I posted about a problem I was having with kernels newer than 2.6.12.x, where, apparently randomly, sometimes vim or other programs would be blocked for more than a minute, and during the entire blockage, the disk would appear to be writing data. Since I saw talk

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Weissenbacher
Hi, of the movie. Now, just to know the format, I played it again, and as it began, it blocked again... not even knoppix is downloading on the background. I just wanted to note that i observed that same bahavior. I tried various things, like changing the kernel from preemption to no preemtion,

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Weissenbacher
Hi, Sorry to quote myself here: Another problem i had was specific to the reiser4-for-2.6.16-1.patch.gz patch. I got a kernel crash two times now, but wasn't yet able to log the error message anywhere because it would not let me write to the reiser4 partition after the error. It never

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread Hans Reiser
Michael Weissenbacher wrote: Hi, of the movie. Now, just to know the format, I played it again, and as it began, it blocked again... not even knoppix is downloading on the background. I just wanted to note that i observed that same bahavior. I tried various things, like changing the

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread Hans Reiser
Michael Weissenbacher wrote: Hi, Sorry to quote myself here: Another problem i had was specific to the reiser4-for-2.6.16-1.patch.gz patch. I got a kernel crash two times now, but wasn't yet able to log the error message anywhere because it would not let me write to the reiser4 partition

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread rvalles
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:53:15AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: rvalles wrote: A few months ago I posted about a problem I was having with kernels newer than 2.6.12.x, where, apparently randomly, sometimes vim or other programs would be blocked for more than a minute, and during the entire

Re: IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-30 Thread rvalles
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:33:39AM +0200, rvalles wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:53:15AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: rvalles wrote: A few months ago I posted about a problem I was having with kernels newer than 2.6.12.x, where, apparently randomly, sometimes vim or other programs

IO randomly blocked for 1 minute while disk writes still in 2.6.16.1 + 2.6.16-reiser4-1

2006-03-29 Thread rvalles
A few months ago I posted about a problem I was having with kernels newer than 2.6.12.x, where, apparently randomly, sometimes vim or other programs would be blocked for more than a minute, and during the entire blockage, the disk would appear to be writing data. Since I saw talk on the matter, I