From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Donald Parsons <dparsons@brightdsl.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.17-...: looong writeouts
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:41:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151170866.3181.71.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060624173658.GB7565@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 21:36 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 06:50:52PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > just a random question to rule things out: can you check if laptop mode
> > is enabled? (see the /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode file). Laptop mode will
> > have the effect of grouping writes together, so if that got enabled
> > accidentally for some reason, that could explain the behavior you are
> > seeing. (and it would narrow down the "what broke" search problem to
> > something that is a lot easier to work on)
>
> Mine is not laptop and I've never enabled it.
but a script in your distro might have...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-24 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-24 16:30 Donald Parsons
2006-06-24 16:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-24 17:36 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-06-24 17:41 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-06-25 0:11 ` Donald Parsons
2006-06-25 2:33 ` Donald Parsons
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2006-06-24 15:15 Alexey Dobriyan
2006-06-29 3:55 ` Andrew Morton
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