| Date | Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:44:43 -0700 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent |
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Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> * The Big Bad Lockup lurking in dquota surfaced again on a K6/200 > server/router, despite Bill Hawes' big cleanup (too bad, it really looked > like it had vanished) : "quotacheck -av", "passwd foo" and "/sbin/lilo" > are still the usual offenders, and lock on "wait_for_dquota" with the > usual symptoms (skyrocketing loadavg, and no way to kill the processes)
Hi Cyrille,
I did quite a bit of stress testing for the quota code and wasn't able to trigger any stuck processes. Could you put together a script to reproduce the problem?
When you say "/sbin/lilo" is an offender, does running lilo hit a quota limit?
Regards, Bill
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