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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 12:56:51 +0200
From: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm1: some sort of deadlock occurs under heavy i/o
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From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Date: Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:02:38PM -0400
> On Sun, 2 May 2004, Jurriaan wrote:
> 
> > When I do a _lot_ of I/O in 2.6.6-rc3-mm1, I've seen some sort of
> > deadlock multiple times now.
> 
> Try the following patch from Andrew;
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.6-rc3-mm1/mm/vmscan.c

That does indeed solve the problem here.

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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