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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: konqueror deadlocks on 2.6.22
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:41:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801200831.04964.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1200802290.4166.2.camel@homer.simson.net>

Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 21:14 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> > I was just attacked by some deadlock issue involving sqlite3 and
> > konqueror. While sqlite3 continues to slowly fill a 7M-record db in
> > transaction mode, konqueror hangs for a few minutes, then continues only
> > to hang again and again.
> >
> > Looks like an fs/blockIO issue involving fsync.
> >
> > As a workaround, is there a way to make fsync soft?
>
> Do you have the fs mounted data=writeback?  A while back, I ran into
> starvation on the order of minutes with my old/full ext2 fs until
> mounting data=writeback.

You are absolutely right.  With data=writeback the hangs completely 
disappear, and sqlite3 insert performance increases 10x fold.

Now data=writeback is known to be faster than data=ordered, but a 10x fold 
increase probably points to some sync contention within the data=ordered 
logic.  Any ideas how this could be fixed?


Thanks a lot!

BTW Mike: Your server bounces my messages.

--
Al



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-20  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-19 18:14 Al Boldi
2008-01-19 18:53 ` Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
2008-01-19 20:57   ` Al Boldi
2008-01-19 22:17     ` Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
2008-01-22 10:10       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 13:23         ` Al Boldi
2008-01-22 14:25           ` Chris Mason
2008-01-22 18:54             ` Al Boldi
2008-01-22 19:13               ` Chris Mason
     [not found] ` <1200802290.4166.2.camel@homer.simson.net>
2008-01-20  5:41   ` Al Boldi [this message]
2008-01-20  7:23     ` Mike Galbraith
2008-01-20  7:30     ` Mike Galbraith

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