From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Corin Hartland-Swann <cdhs@commerce.uk.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sync hanging
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:03:30 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B8223E2.48F7A586@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108210353520.11035-100000@willow.commerce.uk.net>
Corin Hartland-Swann wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using kernel 2.4.8-ac2 on a Dual PIII-1000 with 4096M RAM, and a
> reiserfs filesystem on a RAID-1 mirror of two 76GB UDMA disks, and I'm
> experiencing a strange problem after the machine has been running for a
> while.
>
> Every now and again, running sync(1) (i.e. the program) seems to hang and
> end up in state D (uninterruptible sleep). There is no way to kill it
> (even with SIGKILL but I assume that this is typical for state D
> processes.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? I have searched the
> archives and couldn't find anything similar.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Corin
>
> PS: Please CC any replies to me.
>
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turn off highmem, known bug, I don't know if it is solved yet.
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-21 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-21 2:58 sync hanging Corin Hartland-Swann
2001-08-21 9:03 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2001-08-21 10:29 ` Corin Hartland-Swann
2001-08-21 14:46 ` Hans Reiser
2001-08-21 14:03 ` Alan Cox
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