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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: "Jakob Østergaard" <jakob@unthought.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bdflush and postgres stuck in D state
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:49:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA78916.2984B011@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010918125605.F29908@unthought.net>, <20010918125605.F29908@unthought.net>; from jakob@unthought.net on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:56:05PM +0200 <20010918193023.P29908@unthought.net>

Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> 
> Sorry for following up on my own post, I have a little extra
> information.
> 
> I started a g++ job to try to force the machine to write out some dirty
> buffers before I reboot.   g++ now hangs along with two sync's, bdflush
> and the postgres process.
> 

Since 2.4.7 several bugs have been fixed in RAID1 which would
cause this, including a missing blockdevice unplug and failure
to hang onto the supposedly-reserved RAID1 buffer-heads.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-18 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-18 10:56 bdflush and postgres stuck in D state Jakob Østergaard
2001-09-18 17:30 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-09-18 17:49   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-09-18 21:08     ` David Rees
2001-09-19  9:26       ` Jakob Østergaard

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