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* Re: Help! Unkillable "dd" in kernel 2.4.9
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@ 2001-10-21 17:34 ` William M. Shubert
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From: William M. Shubert @ 2001-10-21 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Oops, just checked the red hat kernel source, found that my bug has been 
fixed there. Caused by a leak of preallocated raid1 buffer headers. 
Apparently fixed in the Alan Cox kernel series. Dang, wish I'd known 
about this fix before I used the vanilla 2.4.9 raid1 system!

William M. Shubert wrote:

> As the subject says, I am running kernel 2.4.9 (from kernel.org, not 
> the red hat version) and have a "dd" process that stopped halfway 
> through its work and is now unkillable. The "wchan" reports that dd is 
> stuck in "raid1_alloc_r1bh".

...
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Bill Shubert (wms@igoweb.org) <mailto:wms@igoweb.org>
http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/ <http://igoweb.org/%7Ewms/>




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