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From: Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>
To: linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: process lockups
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:15:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001024131523.A2431@excalibur.cologne.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010240551.HAA02069@sparta.research.kpn.com>; from Houten K.H.C. van (Karel) on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:51:42AM +0200

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:51:42AM +0200, Houten K.H.C. van (Karel) wrote:
> 
> Ralf Baechle wrote:
[hanging processes in status "D"]
> > I observe similar stuck processes on Origins - even without massive I/O
> > load.  I'm trying to track them but little success aside of fixing a few
> > unrelated little bugs.  Do you observe those on your R4k box also?
> On my DEC 5000/260 (R4k) I have no stuck processes, but I should mention
> that I am running without swap (I have 192Mb RAM).

Having swap or not does not seem to influence the behaviour - I also get
hangs with swap disabled. Good candidates for hangig are either tar or
gcc.

> > Another things which I'm observing is that I occasinally can't unmount
> > a filesystem.  umount then says the fs is still in use.  Sometimes it's
> > at least possible to remount the fs r/o.  Have you also observed this one?
> Yes, but only the root FS. I thought I might have to upgrade to a newer
> mount program for the 2.4 kernel, or is the system call returning the error?

Similar effect here - sometimes unmounting the root fs on shutdown is
successfull, sometimes I get "/ is busy" without being able to find a
reason for that. Possibly it is a bug in the mount (I am still running
mount-2.9o).

> > > Another thing I see on my 5000/150 (and only there - this is my only
> > > R4K-machine, so I do not know whether this is CPU- or machine-type-bound)
> > > is "top" going weird, eating lots of CPU cycles and spitting messages
> > > "schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value fffbd0b2 from 800900f8; Setting
> > > flush to zero for top". I know Florian also has this on his 5000/150.
> > > Anyone else with the same behavoiur or any idea about the cause for this?
> > 
> > Setting flush to zero for <process name> means that the floating point
> > approximator is now enabled ;-)

???

Greetings,
Karsten
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-24 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-24  1:22 process lockups Karsten Merker
2000-10-24  2:47 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-24  5:51   ` Houten K.H.C. van (Karel)
2000-10-24 11:15     ` Karsten Merker [this message]
2000-10-24 14:38     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-24 17:55       ` Karsten Merker
2000-10-25  1:29         ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-24 15:09     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-24 12:25 ` Florian Lohoff

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