Re: kmail slowdown on 2.6.* +reiserFS (v3)

[Andrew Morton <akpm _at_ xxxxxxxx>]

Ciaby <ciaby _at_ autistici.org> wrote:
>
> I all!
> I've recently upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6 and I've noticed a strange thing:
> on the 2.4 kernel, kmail run decently (i've an old k6-200).
> On the 2.6 kernel, kmail slowdown and take a very long time to read a mailbox.
> I think something changed in the reiserFS during this time...
> I'm not the only experiencing this problem, read this:
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1844

A buglet in kmail was tripped up by some optimisations which went into
reiserfs.

Upgrading kmail should fix it up.  Or mount the reiserfs filesystems with
the `nolargeio=1' mount option.

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