From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751292AbWFYCdO (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:33:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751353AbWFYCdO (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:33:14 -0400 Received: from hegel.brightdsl.net ([66.219.128.245]:29414 "EHLO hegel.brightdsl.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751292AbWFYCdO (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:33:14 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.17-...: looong writeouts From: Donald Parsons To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Kernel , Alexey Dobriyan In-Reply-To: <1151194288.4469.4.camel@danny.parsons.org> References: <1151166629.4409.18.camel@danny.parsons.org> <1151167852.3181.65.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060624173658.GB7565@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <1151194288.4469.4.camel@danny.parsons.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:33:04 -0400 Message-Id: <1151202784.4469.8.camel@danny.parsons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 20:11 -0400, Donald Parsons wrote: > 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. > > > > Mine is a laptop T43 running FC3 and the mode is not enabled: > > # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode > 0 > > I have rebooted to 2.6.17 and the problem is there too. It > happened when I tried to paste the above path from the mail. > > Don Another data point (now 2.6.17): I started up Streamtuner to see if it was affected. It is not. While I was trying to get a window to respond for many seconds I noticed sound continued on with no interference at all. Don