> Heavy traffic on ext3 seems to cause short system freezes.
I see dropped frames while watching TV (bttv chip, xawtv in overlay mode,
XFree 4.1.0)
since I use ext3 (2.4.16&17). Always during disk activity (IDE, umask irq
and dma enabled). From what I know the bttv driver does it seems to loose
interrupts!? This doesnt happen with ext2.
> Seems only to happen on 2 or more processor boxes.
Nope, UP Athlon.
> I'm not deep into kernel nor ext3, but how is the journal flushed if
> full?
By any chance, is some global lock held during any IO intensive part of
ext3?
Richard.
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