On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I don't understand what can be causing the behaviour which you
> report. Presumably, some application is generating disk writes,
> and kjournald is thus performing disk IO every five seconds.
The only such "application" could be syslogd or apmd. There is virtually
nothing more running in single user mode.
> If possible, could you please edit fs/jbd/journal.c and change
>
> journal->j_commit_interval = (HZ * 5);
> to
> journal->j_commit_interval = (HZ * 30);
Just tried it. Unfortunately, it didn't improve anything. Consistent
failure what doing "apm -s". I tried some 15 times or so in single user
mode.
Should you, or anybody else, have further suggestions, I'll be happy to
try them out.
-- Kamil Iskra http://www.science.uva.nl/~kamil/ Section Computational Science, Faculty of Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam kamil@science.uva.nl tel. +31 20 525 75 35 fax. +31 20 525 74 90 Kruislaan 403 room F.202 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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