Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6

Marc Wilson
2003-05-29T05:11:09Z

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:22:20AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 10:55, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>:
> > o Fix IO stalls and deadlocks
>
> For those interested these are patches 1 and 2 from akpm's proposed fixes in
> the looong thread discussing this problem.

Are you sure? I'm no C programmer, but it looks to me like all three
patches are in 21-rc6.

And I still see the stalls, although it's much reduced. :( I just had mutt
freeze cold on me though for ~15 sec when it tried to open my debian-devel
mbox (rather lage file) while brag was beating on the drive.

<whimper>

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