Re: 2.6.17-...: looong writeouts

[Donald Parsons <dparsons@brightdsl.net>]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 20:11 -0400, Donald Parsons wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 21:36 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 06:50:52PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > just a random question to rule things out: can you check if laptop mode
> > > is enabled? (see the /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode file). Laptop mode will
> > > have the effect of grouping writes together, so if that got enabled
> > > accidentally for some reason, that could explain the behavior you are
> > > seeing. (and it would narrow down the "what broke" search problem to
> > > something that is a lot easier to work on)
> > 
> > Mine is not laptop and I've never enabled it.
> > 
> 
> Mine is a laptop T43 running FC3 and the mode is not enabled:
> 
> # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
> 0
> 
> I have rebooted to 2.6.17 and the problem is there too.  It
> happened when I tried to paste the above path from the mail.
> 
> Don

Another data point (now 2.6.17):

I started up Streamtuner to see if it was affected.  It is not.
While I was trying to get a window to respond for many seconds
I noticed sound continued on with no interference at all.

Don

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