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I''ve been monitoring the lists for a while now but didn''t see this problem mentioned in particular: I''ve got a fairly standard desktop system at home, 700gb WD drive, nothing special, with 2 btrfs filesystems and some snapshots. The system runs for days, and I''ve noticed unusual disk activity the other evening - turns out that it''s taking forever to

On 06/21/2011 01:15 PM, Jan Stilow wrote: > Hello, > > Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek <at> gentoo.org> writes: >> [...] >> >> Every few minutes, (I guess) when applications do fsync (firefox, >> xchat, vim, etc), all applications that use fsync() hang for several >> seconds, and applic...