From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755885AbYHTKBU (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:01:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751705AbYHTKBE (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:01:04 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:49245 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753798AbYHTKBB (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:01:01 -0400 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg Donald , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: INFO: task reiserfs/0:1322 blocked for more than 120 seconds From: Andi Kleen References: <15e66e4e0808162136r2a439ee9wbb20f2b1f8fabc77@mail.gmail.com> <20080819235258.fa775505.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080820091918.GB23865@elte.hu> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:00:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080820091918.GB23865@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:19:18 +0200") Message-ID: <87abf8ypic.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar writes: > > ok. How about quadrupling the timeout, as per the patch below? > > more than 8 minutes uninterruptible wait, is that a reasonable limit? There should be a way to disable them for NFS and other network file systems at least. Having network issues is not that uncommon and flooding the log with backtraces every time they happen when a network fs is mounted is not very useful. -Andi