Kernel "dead pauses" since 2.6.5-1.332

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 28.04.2004 06:09, Dave Jones wrote:

> I think we've got a handle on this. On a "low" memory box (128/256mb or
> so), it's easy to reproduce. updatedb cron.daily job never runs to
> completion for me.

I've got 512.

> It's the ext3 block reservation patch that's the culprit. (The details
> are pretty icky)   There's been a number of fixes to that in the last
> few days, so hopefully we'll see resolution on it real soon.

Could you please make the fixed packages available on people.redhat.com, 
once you have them? Thank you!

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