Re: Abysmal interactive performance on 2.4.linus

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:56:42PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote:
[snip]
> Seems that reiserfs is the common factor here, at least on my box. This is a 35
> GB reiserfs filesystem, app 80% used, both large and small files.
> 
> As said in my previous message, the numbers themselves don't mean squat. It is
> the large delays (the fact that user+sys <<< real) which are the problem here.
> 
> Any other magic anyone wants me to perform? Hans, you reading this?
> 

Do you see/hear a lot of seeking happing during the delays?

If so, your Reiser partition is probably fragmented to hell...

IIRC this problem is being looked at, check some archives of lkml or reiser...

Mike