Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2003 15:25:52 +0200 | From | Stefan Foerster <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... |
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: >>> Guys, you're the ones who can reproduce this. Please spend more time >>> working out which chunk (or combination thereof) actually fixes the >>> problem. If indeed any of them do. >> As I said, I will test it this evening. ATM I don't have time to >> recompile and reboot. This evening I will test extensively, even on >> SMP, SCSI, IDE and so on. > > May I ask how you are reproducing the bad results? I'm trying in vain > here...
It is easily reproducable by using dd with an appropriate blocksize reading from /dev/zero.
With chunk #3 from Andrew, I do not get pauses, but I noticed text scrolling in an xterm stopping for like a second.
I did not get any zombie processes.
Ciao Stefan
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