Re: Sudden "hangs"....

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

Rogier Wolff wrote:
> It seems my home workstation hangs on a "mkdir" once every morning for
> about half a minute. It'll freeze whatever I'm doing and continue
> happily 30 seconds later, but I can't figure out what's going on
> because it's frozen...

One of my volumes was doing this.  As someone mentioned earlier, check your
kernel log to see if you have a disk error.  On mine, I had no errors.  The
activity led for that volume would be on solid until the mkdir completed. 
My fix was to create a new directory and move everything over and remove the
old directory.  Obviously this won't work if you're having problems with
more than 1 directory or the offending directory is the root of the volume.

Just for information, this volume I have is on a single disk created on the
whole disk (no lvm nor partition).

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