Journaling is killing response time

[bmarsh at bmarsh.com]

Is reiserfs currently supported?




> On Mar 8, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org> wrote:
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> What kind of journaling are you using?  Ext2/3/4?  If so, have
> you tried Reiserfs?  I think there's another option, too, but
> I can't recall it just now, and it might not be appropos, as
> its not an Install option.
> 
> Bill
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>> On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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>> Lately I've been having really bad response intermittently, but often enough it is really irritating.  For example, I will try to kill a program like T-bird, and it will take so long that I get the "not responding" message. But the problem is that it CAN'T respond due to being blocked by the journaling I/O.  If I tell it to wait, it will finally close.
>> 
>> I've been googling the problem and have changed a lot of mount parms but nothing seems to help.  Running  14.10 on an AMD64 machine and this problem seems to have cropped up from the latest batch of updates, within the last one or two weeks.
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>> Another strange thing is that after applying the recent updates (including the 3.16.0-31 kernel,  update-grub refuses to consider 3.16.0-31 as the kernel to boot and doesn't include it in grub.cfg. But if I make the manual change to that kernel, nothing improves.
>> 
>> Anyone else experiencing response problems lately?
>> 
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