https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214909 seife@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jeffm@novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|htejun@gmail.com | ------- Comment #24 from seife@novell.com 2006-11-10 01:57 MST ------- maybe this helps. different machines, but not _that_ different: piix: root@strolchi:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=1M count=100 oflag=sync 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 13,0965 s, 8,0 MB/s ata_piix (only 10MB!): d119:~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=1M count=10 oflag=sync 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 73,1469 s, 143 kB/s This would match the ~5 seconds pause after every RPM: 10 blocks are written, 10 sync() calls, every one of those takes ~7 seconds, and a little bit of time to actually write the data. Jeff, do these ~7 seconds barrier-timeout (?) on ext3 trigger something for you? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.