Re: Tasks raising to 95% of %CPU / SOLVED

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:26:00 +0100 (BST)


> it's not clear from context, and i didn't see the beginning of this
> thread. is this also a problem with 2.2.x kernels? would this be a
> reasonable change for administrators running, say, a directory server on
> recent versions of Linux?

On 2.0 if it does an fsync() of very large files. I accidentally gave him
the wrong one to edit (oops) - the 2nd posters patch is correct.

The real problem is that disk blocks aren't put on per inode chains, with
a seperate single chain for shared blocks.

Alan

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