Re: Iceweasel 17.0 problem and solution
Hello Everyone (new here!)
* Everybody noticed that :
# Issuing sync operations on an ext3 file system will lead to I/O
spikes, as every dirty pages in cache are going to be flushed to disk
(that can take ages)
# The problem is ext3fs filesupport for barriers, which is kind of "bogus".
# ext4 and XFS do support barriers.
# you can mount an ext3 device ext4 on Squeeze
* As it's been said,
# the backports itself is not the cause of the problem.
# However, installing IceWeasel~bpo will need users to
1. upgrade their filsystem to get advantage of the features using fsync
2. disable fsync in Iceweasel and pray for your data
* One should try solution 1) as mounting ext3 to ext4 is supported on squeeze
# try and mount all ext3 partitions to ext4 with default journaling scheme
# reboot, test IceWeasel -> should be much better
# your can try different journalling options data=journal vs
data=ordered and
# compare the perfs with IW17 + ext3 raw, then solution2, then
solution1 + different journalling options for ext4
Hope that can help. Won't have time to test this WE I'm affraid
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote:
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> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Mikko Lehtinen wrote:
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> > 2012/11/30 Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>:
> > > Could you please take this offtopic elsewhere? Thanks.
> > >
> > > Ondřej Surý
> >
> > Sorry. I think there's a single reason why this discussion is somewhat
> > relevant here on the backports mailing lists: Debian Wheezy
> > installations will have many more EXT4 filesystems, whereas Squeeze
> > has EXT3 as default and a very common choice. The biggest
> > synchronization problems seem to only appear on EXT3. If newer
> > versions of Iceweasel have more problems, it might be nice to inform
> > the user that EXT3 does not play nice with fsync, and about the
> > possibility to turn synchronization off. That's all, bye!
> Its not. This is no backports problem.
>
> Alex - Debian Backports ftpmaster and Listmaster
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