Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Oct 2011 11:39:31 +0200 | From | martin f krafft <> | Subject | Re: I/O scheduler on its knees, pvmove hangs other tasks |
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also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> [2011.10.01.1128 +0200]: > The problem is that the kernel seems not to care. The pvmove process > happily chugs along at what seems to be maximum speed. At the same > time, other processes, like /bin/ls simply block and remain in 'D' > state *forever*. Even after the pvmove process exits, these > processes do not recover.
Okay, I lied. In a test I just ran, the test process (ls) recovered after about 10 minutes. It seems that this time increases exponentially with the number of hung processes though.
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