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From: Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: system hangs 2.6.39-rc7 xfs related
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:29:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r57xl28t.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110517155018.GB17735@infradead.org> (message from Christoph Hellwig on Tue, 17 May 2011 11:50:19 -0400)

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:44:37AM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote:
>> my system just sort of locked up and everything that's trying to write
>> to disk is stuck. dmesg gives me this:
>
> This looks quite similar to a few other XFS issues in the .39 cycle.
> Can you upgrade to latest Linus HEAD which has fixes for these similar
> issues and see if that fixes your issues?

i'll give it a try, but it might take some time before i can figure out
if the fixes work as i still haven't figured out a way to reproduce
this consistently (having a lot of processes write to disk at the same
time increases the likelihood of it happening but doesn't guarantee it).

--alex--

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-16 18:44 system hangs 2.6.39-rc7 xfs related Alex Romosan
2011-05-17 15:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-17 16:29   ` Alex Romosan [this message]

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