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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.21.1] totally hanging altough not crashed
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:43:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A11E7D.90209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070720195252.GA25317@vanheusden.com>

On 07/20/2007 03:53 PM, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of my systems running 2.6.21.1 on a P4 with HT and 2GB of ram
> occasionally crashes. Not with an oops or panic, it just suddenly stops
> doing anything. It still lets you ping and it still forwards ip traffic
> but you can't login: not via ssh and not on the console - pressing enter
> brings the cursor to the next line and that's it. It is NOT swapping at
> all, in fact alt+sysrq+m says that there's still plenty of memory and
> swap available:

Lots of processes are in uninterruptible wait at
start_this_handle+0x208/0x365. Can you find out what line of code
that matches? (There are a few of those waits in that function.)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-20 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-20 19:53 [2.6.21.1] totally hanging altough not crashed Folkert van Heusden
2007-07-20 20:43 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-07-20 20:22   ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-07-20 20:29   ` Folkert van Heusden

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