Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 17:31 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can you try this updated patch? I believe the blk_congestion_wait is
> just wrong there, since there may be just one page being flushed. That
> sounds like a longstanding bug except it normally wouldn't trigger
> because the dirty levels never goes down near zero during heavy writes.

fsx is now stuck in a loop somewhere, using 100% cpu.

> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.14-rc1/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-3

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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