Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sync problem in 2.2.5 | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 19 Apr 1999 19:15:10 -0500 |
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>>>>> "AC" == Andre Couture <coutuan@search-n-find.com> writes:
AC> Hi all,
AC> Since 2.2.? I have been having a lot of problem using the sync command.
AC> It "hang" my system and sometimes just the window from which I'm running AC> the command "sync".
AC> It is very consistant (works fine 1 out of 4).
AC> The major difference is that I rencently installed vmware which runs AC> with nice -19 AC> But I don't see how could that affect the sync command except for the AC> fac that it is very "io consuming".
Besides the fact that the vmware module just creates a hole in the kernel security that vmware can climb in, and do whatever it pleases?
I have heard of other instances of vmware cause clock ticks to be missed.
I admit vmware rubs me the the wrong way. But unless you can reproduce this without vmware, running it's probably not a kernel bug.
Eric
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