On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:35, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Hi Ralf, > > you are using 2.4.19 don't you? > Not really. Yes, I shall provide more details: > Our mailbox server has this: > Linux postamt1.charite.de 2.4.19-ac4 #1 Mon Aug 19 14:35:20 CEST 2002 i686 There is your problem. 2.4.19 and even latest 2.4.20 has those kind of behaviour in some situations. I had the same experience. Read the thread between Andrea and me some days ago. Someone wrote you can use: elvtune -r 2048 -w 131072 /dev/$yourdevice echo "90 500 0 0 600000 600000 95 20 0" >/proc/sys/vm/bdflush and with those settings the "freeze" behaviour is gone but I cannot confirm that. 2.4.19|2.4.20 has those problems too even with those settings, but not as worst as without it. -- Kind regards Marc-Christian Petersen http://sourceforge.net/projects/wolk PGP/GnuPG Key: 1024D/569DE2E3DB441A16 Fingerprint: 3469 0CF8 CA7E 0042 7824 080A 569D E2E3 DB44 1A16 Key available at www.keyserver.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users