On Feb 28, 2002 13:35 +0100, Diego SANTA CRUZ wrote: > However, I have observed that whenever something is doing a lot of > writing to an ext3 filesystem other processes that involves I/O on the > same disk are blocked for long times (often in the 10-30 secs range). > For example, if I cp a 1.5 Gb file from one ext3 partition to another > ext3 partition and I try to do ls on some dir, the ls usually blocks > between 10 and 30 secs before giving a response (the CPU usage is no > more than 10% during this). However if the destination partition for the > cp is mounted as ext2, the ls command responds almost immediately. I don't think this is so much an ext3 problem as an elevator starvation problem. You should try using Andrew's elevator starvation fix (sorry, don't know URL), which allows read requests to be put earlier in the queue so you don't get such long waits. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
