kjournald locks up the system periodically in Fedora 9
stan
goedigi89__e at cox.net
Mon Jun 9 16:27:15 UTC 2008
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.
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