[ltp] Re: system unresponsive during disk activity

[Marcus Better]

Marcus Better wrote:
> This is an R60 with 1 GB RAM running kernel 2.6.24-rc6 (x86_64) and KDE.
> The problem has been around for a long time with earlier kernels. The file
> systems are mostly XFS.

Oh, yeah. I disabled the write cache due to the lack of write barriers on
this system [1]. Will turn it on and see what happens.

In the meantime, does anyone know if there are Thinkpads with write barriers
(or good replacement hard drives)?

[1] http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2006.07.18-xfs-caching