Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27T17:49:14Z

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 May 2003 19:47, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> > > A pause is _not_ perfectly fine, even not to some extent. That pause we
> > > are discussing about is a pause of the _whole_ machine, not just disk i/o
> > > pauses. Mouse stops, keyboard stops, everything stops, who knows wtf.
> > Do you also notice them?
> I do, people I know do also, numbers of those people only _I_ know are about
> ~30. I've reported this problem over a year ago while 2.4.19-pre time.

Can you please try to reproduce it with -aa?

> > > That behaviour is absolutely bullshit for desktop users. For serverusage
> > > you may not notice it in this dimension (mostly no X so no mouse), but
> > > also for a server environment this may be very bad.
> > Agreed.