Re: EXT3 - freeze ups during disk writes

[Erik Elmore]

ahhhh... woops... every official kernel since ext3 made it into the 
official tree, 2.4.14 if memory serves.  I'm using gcc 2.95.3.  And to 
clarify the bug, say on a large disk write, the pause isn't constant, 
it just pauses for a second every few seconds during the write.  For 
smaller writes, it will pause only once, I assume while performing the 
actual write to disk.

Erik

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:47:19AM -0600, Erik Elmore wrote:
> > Ever since I started using ext3fs, whenever there is a disk write, the 
> > kernel sucks up all of the CPU thereby preempting everything and causing 
> > the PC to freeze momentarily.  Could this possibly be caused by the 
> > journaling code in ext3?
> > 
> 
> You really need to give kernel version, gcc version and what things were
> happening at the time.
> 
> I can think of five different things that this general description has
> brought up.
> 
> mf
>