From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754873Ab0IQRHi (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:07:38 -0400 Received: from tn-76-7-162-101.sta.embarqhsd.net ([76.7.162.101]:55942 "EHLO animx.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752835Ab0IQRHh (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:07:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1211 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:07:37 EDT Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:47:23 -0400 From: Wakko Warner To: Rogier Wolff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Sudden "hangs".... Message-ID: <20100917164723.GA13770@animx.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Rogier Wolff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20100916143304.GA14874@bitwizard.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100916143304.GA14874@bitwizard.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rogier Wolff wrote: > It seems my home workstation hangs on a "mkdir" once every morning for > about half a minute. It'll freeze whatever I'm doing and continue > happily 30 seconds later, but I can't figure out what's going on > because it's frozen... One of my volumes was doing this. As someone mentioned earlier, check your kernel log to see if you have a disk error. On mine, I had no errors. The activity led for that volume would be on solid until the mkdir completed. My fix was to create a new directory and move everything over and remove the old directory. Obviously this won't work if you're having problems with more than 1 directory or the offending directory is the root of the volume. Just for information, this volume I have is on a single disk created on the whole disk (no lvm nor partition). -- Microsoft has beaten Volkswagen's world record. Volkswagen only created 22 million bugs.