Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Jens Axboe
2003-05-28T12:55:53Z

On Wed, May 28 2003, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> >
> >>On Wednesday 28 May 2003 13:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>
> >>>Guys, you're the ones who can reproduce this. Please spend more time
> >>>working out which chunk (or combination thereof) actually fixes the
> >>>problem. If indeed any of them do.
> >>
> >>As I said, I will test it this evening. ATM I don't have time to
> >>recompile and reboot. This evening I will test extensively, even on
> >>SMP, SCSI, IDE and so on.
> >
> > May I ask how you are reproducing the bad results? I'm trying in vain
> > here...
>
> Quoting Con Kolivas:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=dump bs=4096 count=512000

already tried that, no go. on ide/scsi? what filesystem? how much ram?
anything else running? smp/up?

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Jens Axboe