<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Benoit</b> <<a href="mailto:ipso@snappymail.ca">ipso@snappymail.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:20 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote:<br><br>><br>> I recently upgraded my kernel and haven't had the problem since. It's<br>> too soon to tell for sure because I also cleared up some disk space,
<br>> but this is the first full week of uptime I've actually had in a very<br>> long time. I've had no glitches, crashes, or other problems since I<br>> upgraded. I'm now running 2.6.12-22mdk (Mandriva's kernel package)
<br>> and was running 2.6.12-12mdk, so it may be worth inquiring to see if<br>> there's something they've fixed in the last couple months that may be<br>> related.<br><br>The problem as I understand it isn't due to how much free space you have
<br>as much as it is due to the total fragmentation of the space that is<br>available. That is why some people would see the problem one week at<br>20gb free, and not see it the next week until 15-16gb free.<br><br>I'm sure it also matters when/if you transcode your recordings. If you
<br>transcode all your recordings one at time during the night when no other<br>recordings are going on, I would expect this process to be like a<br>mini-defrag, assuming you have enough defragmented space available to<br>
fit the newly transcoded recording. Of course if you are recording while<br>the transcode is going on, that would probably just make the problem<br>even worse.<br><br>When I posted to the ReiserFS list Hans seemed to think we're hitting a
<br>corner case or bug in an optimization routine, because from what I have<br>seen the problem doesn't worsen over time, rather it all of a sudden<br>hits and brings the machine to its knees.<br><br>I urge you guys to join the ReiserFS list to help track down the issue
<br>so we can get it fixed. I know for myself there is pretty much no way I<br>can convert file systems without losing the vast majority of my<br>recordings.<br><br>In fact Jeff posted a patch that _may_ fix or least help the issue:
<br><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=115168608000310&w=2">http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=115168608000310&w=2</a><br>I haven't had a chance to test it out myself yet.<br><br>--
<br>Mike Benoit <<a href="mailto:ipso@snappymail.ca">ipso@snappymail.ca</a>></blockquote><div><br><br>Apparently, I spoked too soon, as I returned home tonight to a locked machine. I too have far more recordings then is possible for me to move. On top of my recordings, I also have my entire DVD collection and music collection ripped to the same partition. Where is the list we should join? All I'm seeing is an archive.
<br><br>Ryan<br></div><br></div><br>