linux-ext4 - Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

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Message-ID: <46325D15.90005@googlemail.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:29:09 +0200
From:	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>,
	Marat Buharov <marat.buharov@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when
 FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There was even somebody who did something like that for a PhD thesis, I 
> forget the details (and it apparently died when the thesis was presumably 
> accepted ;).
>
>   


You mean SpadFS[1] right ?

> 			Linus
>   

Gabriel

[1] http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/spadfs/
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