FC4 and kjournald

[Daniel Orzechowski]

After installing FC4 onto a blank ext3 partition, I've noticed that 
kjournald seems a lot more aggressive than it used to be on my FC3 
machine.  Whenever I install an RPM, compile something, or decompress an 
archive, my machine becomes jerky and unresponsive.  Running top shows that 
kjournald is using ~50% of available CPU at these times.  My previous 
install used the exact same hardware, partition layout and format, and 
filesystem mount options, and did not experience this problem.

/etc/fstab shows that the partition is mounted using the default mount 
options.  I don't know what arguments, if any, are being used for kjournald 
as I don't know where to look.

Has anyone experienced this problem?  Where could I look for more 
information?  Is there any way to avoid it?

thanks in advance for any help.

Dan


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Dan Orzechowski
SAIC Marine Science and Technology Division
401.848.4786