I think we've got a few different problems. On SMP boxes, you need to
have the fix-pausing patch from andrea applied to catch all the corner
cases.
On UP boxes it's possible the requests are starving in the drive, SCSI
users should try with the max tags set down to something sensible,
between 8 and 32.
IDE people can try lowering the max_kb_per_request paramater in
/proc/ide/<drive>/settings, but this should only affect starvation with
the writeback cache on.
I made a patch a while ago that timed how long people spent waiting in
__get_request_wait, it might help us figure out where the starvation is
really happening.
-chris
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