Re: Disk IO with the 3.4 kernel

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:40:12PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
> Hello all
> Is it just me or is anyone else having a problem with the computer
> locking up when there's any heavy disk input/output going on? If I
> untar a large source tarball (like Firefox or something) then other
> applications lock up and stop responding if they need to read anything
> at all off the disk. I never used to have this problem so I'm assuming
> it's something that changed in the 3.4 kernel. For me it seems to be
> quite a serious regression.
> 
> Andy

 Do you have an older kernel, and is it *still* ok with that ?

 I suspect you might have a problem with the disk.  Do you have
smartmontools installed ?  Or, possibly, libatasmart (I found that
one hard to use when I tested it).  I hope that suspicion is wrong,
because recovering from disk failures can be painful.

 In my own use 3.4.0 seems fine.

ĸen
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