kjournald locks up the system periodically in Fedora 9

[stan]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 2008/6/9 stan <goedigi89__e at cox.net>:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Running up to date Fedora 9.  Every so often, kjournald locks up the system
>> due to heavy IO.  When it is done, system response returns to normal.  Is
>> this normal?  Or should I report it as a bug?
>>     
>
> I see the same issue, but hadn't nailed it down to kjournald being the
> culprit - what makles you think it is kjournald? Interesting I only
> see it on one of 3 F-9 installs, and that one differs from the other
> two in having encrypted  volumes, so I was thinking it might be due to
> that, but need to dig further.
>
>   
I open a terminal, and run iotop.  When this lockup (really extremely 
slow response) happens, I see the light on the drive is lit constantly, 
and iotop shows kjournald using a lot of IO.  Beagle will also run the 
light constantly, but it uses only about 8 or 10% of IO.