On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:30, André Wöbbeking wrote: > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:15, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 05:09, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > Hi, > > Is anything trying to write/read large amounts of data when this > > happens? if so you might want to: > > - check the settings for your harddisk (notably DMA) > > - also which filessystem are you using? reiserfs3 has problems > > locking up the system under high load > > I sometimes have this problem and thought that it's related to SATA. But > I'm using reiserfs3. Do you've more infos about its problems under high > load. YMMV, I can't remember where I read the details, but the FAQ at [1] has: Q: Why do things freeze on my IDE hard drive for annoying amounts of time A: Because when large writes are scheduled all at once, reads can starve. A fix for this is evolving; the later your ReiserFS patch, the better we handle this. (it's been over a year since I was using reiserfs, this problem made my laptop completely unusable for 10minutes+ when doing e.g. svn update on the d-i repository, i finally 'fixed' it by switching to ext3, situation might have improved since then) [1] http://www.namesys.com/faq.html -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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