Re: [BUG] fatal hang untarring 90GB file, possibly writeback related.

James Bottomley
2011-04-28T22:44:39Z

On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 00:40 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> James in the meantime identified that cgroups are somehow involved.
> Are you
> using systemd by any chance? Maybe cgroup IO throttling screws us?

Yes, this is a FC15 system with systemd as the default.

See related post: it looks like disabling the memory controller is what
makes this go away.

James