[26074] in Athena Bugs
xfs Goes Crazy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocco J Pigneri)
Thu Sep 16 14:55:03 2004
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:53:49 -0400
From: Rocco J Pigneri <rpigneri@mit.edu>
Reply-To: rpigneri@mit.edu
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To whom this may concern:
Since the 9.3 upgrade, I have noticed that Athena service has been
very slow when using Sawfish and browsing the Internet. The Internet
problem was quickly resolved around the start of rush, but the Sawfish
issue is still around. I have noticed that whenever I resize a
window, whenever I start wish, or whenever the title of a window
changes (for example, when browsing the web), the xfs process starts
to eat up to 100% of the processor for at least 5 seconds. This makes
using Athena impossible to use when I have a lot of windows to manage
or am browsing the web.
This next issue may help you track down the cause of this problem
although you do not need to fix this issue as it is caused by my home
computer. There is a bug in either the OpenAFS or exmh installations
that I have at home that causes my home installation of exmh to write
a whole ton of lines to the ~/Mail/.exmhcontext file in my Athena
locker. My home installation has access to this file (along with the
rest of my Athena e-mail) via OpenAFS. When I run exmh on Athena,
these extra lines cause exmh to slow to a crawl when it does nearly
anything involving the disk. However, the process that hoses the
system is again xfs.
Please alert me to any action taken with regards to this bug. Thanks
in advance for any help you can supply.
Sincerely,
Rocco Pigneri
