From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:11:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:11:08 -0500 Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.84]:61316 "EHLO gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:10:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:14:11 -0500 To: Jens Axboe Cc: rwhron@earthlink.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.2-pre1 dbench 32 hangs in vmstat "b" state Message-ID: <20011224171411.A260@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20011221091104.A120@earthlink.net> <20011221154654.E811@suse.de> <20011221185538.A131@earthlink.net> <20011224150337.A593@suse.de> <20011224115953.A118@earthlink.net> <20011224180244.C1241@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011224180244.C1241@suse.de>; from axboe@suse.de on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:02:44PM +0100 From: rwhron@earthlink.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:02:44PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > I would suspect that, do you get any kernel messages? When the machine gets in this state, it won't save any files, so kern.log doesn't have anything after the initial boot message. > Please send ps -eo cmd,wchan info for a hung machine. > > -- > Jens Axboe Strangely (to me anyway), when dbench 32 hangs the machine, ps will not print anything. vmstat will continue it's 8 second cycle though. -- Randy Hron