On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Can you try 3.9-rc4 or later and see if the problem still persists? > There were a number of ext4 issues especially around low memory > performance which weren't resolved until -rc4. Actually, sorry, I took a closer look and I'm not as sure going to -rc4 is going to help (although we did have some ext4 patches to fix a number of bugs that flowed in as late as -rc4). Can you send us the patch that you used to get record these long stall times? And I assume you're using a laptop drive? 5400RPM or 7200RPM? - Ted -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>