[vdr] Re: lock-vdr

[Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

Helmut Auer wrote:
>> Well, to be more precise, the reboot happened because removing the 
>> files took longer
>> than the watchdog timeout of 10 seconds. I suggest you set the timeout 
>> to some 30-60
>> sevonds. The "attempt to unlock..." message is not directly related to 
>> the reboot
>> problem, but nevertheless I'll remove it.
> After that I set my watchdog timeout higher, but I have "lived" with a 
> timeout of 10 seconds for about two months without anyproblem.
> What is linux doing for about 10 seconds when 4 files are deleted ???? I 
> have an ext3 filesystem.
Maybe you compiled ext3 support with extra checking. I did the same on 
reiserfs some time ago, and it took almost 5 seconds to delete a 650 MB 
file. Now it deletes 30 GB in about 1 second...