Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 1997 04:19:15 -0400 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: kernel 2.0.30 |
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Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 16:12:20 +0200 From: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>
Hmm ... I'm don't think so ... maybe the problem is triggered by the changes in fs/buffer.c but these changes are not the cause for the problem.
We heave at S.u.S.E. some support mails and support phone calls for 2.0.25 and 2.0.29 with the same problems now often found in 2.0.30. Maybe some of the problems are caused by broken or misconfigured hardware ... but the rest of these phenomenons?
No, I can reproduce it on my 2.1.x Sparc systems these days every once in a while, this is why I initially suspected the buffer.c changes since those were now in both 2.0.30 and current 2.1.x sources.
Now I am starting to suspect a strange race in the page cache, all of the debugging I've seen on this shows a process stuck on I/O to a page in the page cache. I will be looking more deeply into this.
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