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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	colin.king@canonical.com, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	mgorman@novell.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] fatal hang untarring 90GB file, possibly writeback related.
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:12:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304025145.2598.24.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304020767.2598.21.camel@mulgrave.site>

On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:59 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Actually, talking to Chris, I think I can get the system up using
> init=/bin/bash without systemd, so I can try the no cgroup config.

OK, so a non-PREEMPT non-CGROUP kernel has survived three back to back
runs of untar without locking or getting kswapd pegged, so I'm pretty
certain this is cgroups related.  The next steps are to turn cgroups
back on but try disabling the memory and IO controllers.

James


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-28 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-27 16:09 [BUG] fatal hang untarring 90GB file, possibly writeback related James Bottomley
2011-04-27 16:33 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-27 16:50   ` James Bottomley
2011-04-27 16:54     ` Chris Mason
2011-04-27 17:21       ` James Bottomley
2011-04-27 17:34         ` Chris Mason
2011-04-27 17:50           ` James Bottomley
2011-04-27 18:25             ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 15:57               ` James Bottomley
2011-04-27 20:05             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 11:36               ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 12:29                 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-28 13:42                   ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 13:45                     ` Chris Mason
2011-04-28 14:01                       ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 14:04                         ` Chris Mason
2011-04-28 15:23                           ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 14:25                         ` Jan Kara
2011-04-28 14:33                           ` Jan Kara
2011-04-28 14:58                             ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 22:40                               ` Jan Kara
2011-04-28 22:44                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03 18:55                                 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 16:11                             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 14:49                   ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 13:52                 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-28 14:07                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-28 14:25                     ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 15:08                       ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-28 16:01                         ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 16:50                           ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 16:56                             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 17:18                               ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-28 18:30                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 19:21                                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-28 19:59                                     ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 20:27                                       ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-29 15:02                                         ` James Bottomley
2011-04-28 21:12                                       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2011-04-28 22:43                                         ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03  9:13                                           ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-03 14:13                                             ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03 14:22                                               ` James Bottomley
2011-05-06  7:42                                                 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-06  8:07                                                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-09 18:16                                                     ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 10:21                                                       ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-10 10:33                                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-10 14:01                                                         ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 14:35                                                           ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-10 15:29                                                             ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 15:57                                                               ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 17:05                                                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 17:17                                                                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-10 17:29                                                                     ` James Bottomley
2011-05-10 21:08                                                               ` Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-05-11  9:16                                                                 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-06 11:42                                                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-06 15:44                                                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-06 19:14                                                     ` James Bottomley
2011-05-06 19:37                                                       ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-10  5:37                                                     ` Colin Ian King
2011-05-06 15:58                                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03  9:54                                 ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28 17:10                         ` Colin Ian King
2011-04-28  0:37         ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-29 10:23         ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-29 15:37           ` James Bottomley
2011-04-29 16:31             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-29 18:02               ` James Bottomley
2011-05-02 20:04                 ` James Bottomley

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