On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 16:42, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > On 01/19/2009 02:39 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> Since I got my new computer, I have occasionally experienced times >> when my HD light would come on and all apps stall for a few seconds. >> These seem to come in swarms, with 2-10 happening separated by >> 1-30 seconds, then nothing for hours or even days. Watching iotop, >> it seems to bekjournald2, but is hard to tell, because after iotop >> unsticks, >> the entries appear only briefly. >> >> The most obvious things I can think of that might be at the root of >> this is that I am using a self compiled (but Debianized) 2.6.28 >> kernel, and ext4. > > You think it's happening on the ext4 partition?
/ is ext3, /usr, /var, /home et al are ext4 > I'm about to put some relatively-unused files on an ext4 partition, and I'll > see what happens myself. > >> Overall system is sid/experimental AMD64. Hardware is Core 2, >> Intel MB (ICH8), pata system disk, sata data disk. >> >> Has anyone heard/experienced anything related, or does >> anyone know how to get better info than from iotop? > > By-partition info? Or just some way seeing what spikes the io, other than straining to see something that is on the screen for a split second. I have searching for more info, and I saw some suggestions that atime or swappiness could be involved. So I turned on noatime for some partitions. So far everything has been fine, but it hasn't really been long enough to tell for sure. I did have noatime on my old computer. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
