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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ciaby <ciaby@autistici.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmail slowdown on 2.6.* +reiserFS (v3)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:27:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040111182739.0686fbee.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401112109.22027.ciaby@autistici.org>

Ciaby <ciaby@autistici.org> wrote:
>
> I all!
> I've recently upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6 and I've noticed a strange thing:
> on the 2.4 kernel, kmail run decently (i've an old k6-200).
> On the 2.6 kernel, kmail slowdown and take a very long time to read a mailbox.
> I think something changed in the reiserFS during this time...
> I'm not the only experiencing this problem, read this:
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1844

A buglet in kmail was tripped up by some optimisations which went into
reiserfs.

Upgrading kmail should fix it up.  Or mount the reiserfs filesystems with
the `nolargeio=1' mount option.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-12  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-11 20:09 Ciaby
2004-01-12  2:27 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-14 13:20   ` Chris Mason
2004-01-14 13:32     ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-14 13:42       ` Chris Mason
2004-01-12 13:18 Samium Gromoff

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