* Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>: > That's definitely "wrong". I'm wondering if there's an O(1) scheduler > interaction at play here, as postfix's synchronous IO patterns trigger > yielding behaviour which changed significantly in O(1). We're running the AC patches with Postfix and ext3 on our external mailrelay and our internal mailserver. We see disk I/O blocking everthing from 5-15s, but not what Thomas observed. But we're using vanilla kernels with AC patches applied. -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V a) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite Campus Mitte Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Referat V a - Kommunikationsnetze - Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users