From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.9991 Description of problem: I have an smp system and a laptop and both have kjournald writing to disc non-stop. This problem doesn't happen right away. But after a few weeks of running the system it seems to get progressively worse. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start the system 2. 3. Actual Results: kjournald starts writing to disc non-stop Expected Results: quiet harddrive Additional info:
Note that this problem can be somewhat controlled by e.g. starting the laptop without ac, then plugging once booted. Or sometimes by unplugging then replugging the power cord. It seems like something is going on with acpi.
could be the memory leak that was fixed recently. Can you try the kernel at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/ please ?
no change to disk activity. here is a sample of the dmesg output when block_dump is enabled. kjournald(471): WRITE block 42616 on dm-0 kjournald(471): WRITE block 42624 on dm-0 kjournald(471): WRITE block 42632 on dm-0 kjournald(471): WRITE block 42640 on dm-0 kjournald(471): WRITE block 42648 on dm-0 kjournald(471): WRITE block 42656 on dm-0 kjournald(471): WRITE block 42664 on dm-0 it runs through blocks like this 8 at a time. but like I said, messing around with how it's plugged in at bootup and then unplugging - replugging etc makes it finally quiet. jpb
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.