Serious I/O problems (bad performance and live-lock)

[Daniel Eriksson]

Kevin Oberman wrote:

> I had been seeing similar problems (very painful to get anything done)
> for several days, but the kernel I built from CURRENT as of
> 2005.04.20.16.29.00 seems to have fixed the problem for me.

Unfortunately I'm still seeing it on a kernel from today. But thanks for
confirming that something is icky in the disc I/O-path (both ATA and SCSI).

/Daniel Eriksson