Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:02:21 +0000 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Most processes gradually becoming 'D' |
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Romano Giannetti wrote: > > > Was you playing an audio CD on the same ide interface that one of your > > > disc? A Acer 32x CD-ROM? (If yes, I have a very probable candidate...:) > > > > Yes. I have a swap partition on the secondary master, and the CD-ROM > > is the secondary slave. > > > > The drive in question is as follows: > > > > hdd: Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPI Model DR-A14S 0104, ATAPI CDROM drive > > > > > (Look for syslog about "Lost interrupt", well, if you have the /var/log > > > dir in another interface) > > > > /var/log is on the primary master, but nothing was logged. At the > > time of the crash, my system had not hit swap, so the secondary master > > had not been touched either. > > > > Jens, it is possible that this happens for the same problem I've seen? > If Andrew's system was trying to swap, and the CD goes berserk like > mine, all things touching the VM will go to D state forever... what do > you think?
No, I don't think this is related. You've seen processes entering the D state because of problems with your drive+ide-cd. I think there was/is a thread here that dealt with D state processes in 2.2.0? If you do a ps axl you'll see where they are stuck.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * "The only thing that interferes with my * learning is my education." -- A. Einstein
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