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From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Florin Iucha <florin@iucha.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:49:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <393744987.14537@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <E1ImpbK-0000l3-1u@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071030114250.GL25561@iucha.net>

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:42:50AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:54:03PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > It could be triggered by the more aggressive writeback behavior - the
> > new code will keep on retrying as long as there are dirty inodes pending.
> > 
> > Florin, would you try the attached patches against 2.6.24-git?
> > They may generate big traffic of printk messages, but will help
> > debug the problem.
> 
> I have updated to v2.6.24-rc1-334-g82798a1.  After using my computer
> for two hours, I left the computer idle overnight.  This morning,
> pdflushd is again consuming 25% of a CPU.  I will try Fengguang's
> patches today.

Thank you.

Be sure to stop klogd ;-)
A `dmesg` will be sufficient for debugging.

btw, I cannot reproduce it with simple NFSv3 tests.

Fengguang


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-30 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-28 15:24 pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32 Florin Iucha
2007-10-29 13:46 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-29 15:01   ` Florin Iucha
2007-10-29 18:43     ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-29 18:48       ` Florin Iucha
     [not found] ` <E1ImlvH-0003YH-Qf@localhost>
2007-10-30  7:54   ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-30 11:42   ` Florin Iucha
     [not found]     ` <E1ImpbK-0000l3-1u@localhost>
2007-10-30 11:49       ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2007-10-30 11:55       ` Florin Iucha
2007-10-31  0:02       ` Florin Iucha
2007-10-31  3:52         ` Florin Iucha
     [not found]           ` <E1In7S9-0001rv-NO@localhost>
2007-10-31  6:53             ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-31 12:16             ` Florin Iucha
2007-10-31 17:53               ` Florin Iucha
     [not found]                 ` <E1InUH6-0001vE-1Y@localhost>
2007-11-01  7:15                   ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-01 12:25                   ` Florin Iucha
     [not found]                     ` <E1InZht-0004lr-NN@localhost>
2007-11-01 13:03                       ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-01 14:14                       ` Florin Iucha
     [not found]                         ` <E1InlPV-0001f1-SL@localhost>
2007-11-02  1:33                           ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-02  2:10                           ` Florin Iucha
     [not found]                             ` <E1Inw51-0001e8-PS@localhost>
2007-11-02 12:56                               ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-02 13:32                               ` Florin Iucha
2007-11-11 13:43                                 ` Thomas
2007-12-04 10:28                                   ` [Bug 9291] " Ingo Molnar
2007-12-04 17:45                                     ` Thomas Kuther

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