Re: 2.6.2-rc2 Interactivity problems with SMP + HT

Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Friday 30 January 2004 02:25, Catalin BOIE wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
> >> It might be some IDE disk I/O that results from flushing buffers
> >> or whatever.  I don't see this on my SCSI boxes, but I have seen
> >> an IDE box get sluggish at times due to I/O.
> >
> >It is possible.
> >vmstat shows a lot of writes when this happen.
> >Seems that even reads hangs.
> >I remember tat I was in pine and I tried to save a small file (under
> > 1k) and it took 5-7 seconds to do it.
> >
> I'm having similar problems with kmail on the later kernels.

There's a problem with reiserfs and kmail.  If you're using reiserfs, be
sure to have the latest kmail installed, or mount the filesytems with
`nolargeio=1'.