Re: 2.5.2-pre1 dbench 32 hangs in vmstat "b" state

Jens Axboe
2001-12-28T11:41:16Z

On Thu, Dec 27 2001, rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:02:44PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > I tried unpatched 2.5.2-pre1 on a k6-2. dbench 32 hung similarly with
> > > 32 in "b", bo and bi = 0, and id = 100. That machine is ill now and can't
> > > find "init" when booting, boot single, or boot init=/bin/bash.
> >
> > Please send ps -eo cmd,wchan info for a hung machine.
> >
> > --
> > Jens Axboe
> >
>
> I rebuilt the reiserfs that dbench writes to.
> Here is ps -eo cmd,wchan on the k6-2 running 2.5.2-pre2:

Ah this is interesting, all stuck in get_request_wait. I cannot
reproduce your problem here whatever I do, no reiser though.

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Jens Axboe