Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:29:09 +0100 (CET) | | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | | Subject | Re: Temporary lockup on loopback block device |
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> > Why are there over-limit dirty pages that no one is writing? > > Please do a sysrq-t, and cat /proc/vmstat during the hang. Those > will show us what exactly is happening.
I did and I posted relevant information from my finding --- it looped in balance_dirty_pages.
> I've seen this type of hang many times, and I agree with Peter, that > it's probably about loopback, and is fixed in 2.6.24-rc.
On 2.6.23 it could happen even without loopback --- loopback just made it happen very often. 2.6.24 seems ok.
Mikulas
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