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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-rc1 - hang with processes stuck in D
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:37:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC8645B.A0E99A99@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200211060025.gA60P6V01413@karaya.com

Jeff Dike wrote:
> 
> 2.4.20-rc1 reliably gets processes stuck in D, eventually wedging the whole
> system.  This is by diffing two kernel pools, one of which has 9 138764288
> byte core files.
> 
> The diff itself is stuck in __wait_on_buffer:
> 
>         Trace; c0131608 <__wait_on_buffer+68/90>

Kernel is waiting for IO completion on a read.  I would be
suspecting your IO system, or interrupt system.

Reverting your ide/scsi/whatever drivers to the last-known-to-work
version would be interesting.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-06  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-06  0:25 2.4.20-rc1 - hang with processes stuck in D Jeff Dike
2002-11-06  0:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-06  3:08   ` Jeff Dike
2002-11-08  4:17     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-11-08 18:43       ` Trond Myklebust
2002-11-09 22:39         ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-11-08  9:01   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-11-10 21:22     ` Jeff Dike

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