> I'm running XFS on all my harddisc partitions and I am usually
> experiencing some strange kupdated behaviours.
> I happened that
> kupdated becomes mad for few seconds, taking almost all the CPU
> power so I can't do anything else that waiting for it to finish.
yes i also noticed a strange behaviour of kupdated when i switched one
partition to XFS (main partition is reiserfs). top tells me that
kupdated is using a lot of cpu time, at least 10x as much as before when
the partition was reiserfs. but i can't say if kupdated has peaks where
it takes all cycles for some seconds (your scenario) or not.
i disabled spindown on my harddisk (hdparm -S 0 /dev/xxx) and cpu time
decreased to the values i had with reiserfs before (with enabled
spindown time of 30m). maybe still slightly higher.
p133/96mb ram - 2.4.14 - debian
!thomas
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