From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261511AbULFMbc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:31:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261512AbULFMbc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:31:32 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:21400 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261511AbULFMb3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:31:29 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <41B45134.4040005@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:31:48 +0100 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041203) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Time sliced CFQ #2 References: <20041204104921.GC10449@suse.de> <41B426D4.6080506@gmx.de> <20041206093517.GJ10498@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20041206093517.GJ10498@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7B1795286C3EB8E68617F26D" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7B1795286C3EB8E68617F26D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jens Axboe schrieb: > On Mon, Dec 06 2004, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>this one crapped out on me, while having heavy disk activity. (updating >> gentoo portage tree - rebuilding metadata of it). Unfortunately I >>couldn't save the oops, as I had no hd access anymore and X would freeze >>a little later...(and I don't want to risk my data a second time...) > > > Did you save anything at all? Just the function of the EIP would be > better than nothing. Nope, sorry. I hoped it would be in the logs, but it seems as new cfq went havoc, hd access went dead. And I was a bit too nervous about my data so that I didn't write it down by hand... > Well hard to say anything qualified without an oops :/ > > I'll try with PREEMPT here. If you are not able to reproduce, I will try it again on a spare partition... Should access to zip drive stil be possible if hd's io-scheduler is dead? Prakash --------------enig7B1795286C3EB8E68617F26D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBtFE0xU2n/+9+t5gRAthvAKDlRszC0xEMG+o/SARKj+sVkRRhtwCfbdf4 3B+HxBHIlzWTp4bT+LQ05+E= =w29E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7B1795286C3EB8E68617F26D--