Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) | | From | Mike Galbraith <> | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:17:45 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 01:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Another livelock possibility is that bonnie is redirtying pages faster than > commit can write them out, so commit got livelocked: > > When I was doing the original port-from-2.2 I found that an application > which does > > for ( ; ; ) > pwrite(fd, "", 1, 0); > > would permanently livelock the fs. I fixed that, but it was six years ago, > and perhaps we later unfixed it.
Well, box doesn't seem the least bit upset after quite a while now, so I guess it didn't get unfixed.
-Mike
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