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From: Brian May <brian@vpac.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: open sleeps
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:07:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <485AF4BE.6090409@vpac.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080620095813.22fb518e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> So, it would seem some other process has taken write leases on your
> files but does not release them in a timely manner.  You can see the
> current leases in /proc/locks.
>   
What is a lease? Is this a kernel level thing or user level thing?

What is the format of /proc/locks? I assume the 4th field is PID, what 
is the next field? How do I work out what is locked?

Thanks.

Brian May

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-20  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-19 23:14 open sleeps Brian May
2008-06-19 23:58 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-20  0:07   ` Brian May [this message]
2008-06-20  0:20     ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-20  0:50       ` Brian May
2008-06-20  1:11         ` Brian May
2008-06-20  6:45           ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-26  6:30             ` Brian May
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-19  5:27 Brian May
2008-06-19  5:30 ` Brian May
2008-06-19  6:21 ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-19  6:40   ` Brian May
2008-06-19  8:43     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-19  9:48       ` Sebastian Brings
2008-06-20  1:47       ` Brian May
2008-06-20  4:11         ` Brian May
2008-06-26  6:29           ` Brian May

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