Re: hd sometimes 'hangs' a few seconds

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:28:42PM +0200, Hans Schippers wrote:
> My kernel is 2.4.7-2
 
> would a patch from the ext3 site be better/as good as a kernel upgrade?

No, since a lot of the fixed performance problems are core VM and VFS
problems, not ext3 problems.  2.4.7-2 is known to be particularly bad
under many loads, so I'd recommend grabbing a more recent rev from
rawhide before trying to update ext3 itself.

Cheers,
 Stephen