Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:46:26 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup |
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On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:23:07 +0000 David <david@unsolicited.net> wrote: > > I've been testing rc1 for a week or so, and about 25% of the time I'm > seeing Firefox and Thunderbird getting stuck in 'D' state as they startup. > > I've attached the output of Sysrq-T to this mail... system is a > dual-core AMD64, and files are on a RAID-1 root partition connected two > SATA disks on the on-board NVidia controller. I've had no problems > before .24 rc1
I am seeing something very similar on a PowerPC machine where copying a file from an LVM volume with ext3 on it to a simple scsi partition (again ext3) on the same disk will hang in congestion_wait. If I am patient enough, the copy makes very slow progress. A kill -9 will kill it eventually, but a simple control-C will not.
This hang occurs more often than not (and usually when I am trying to install a new kernel into /boot for testing :-)).
I don't have access to the machine today, but if more information would be useful, I could boot into 2.6.24-rc1-<mumble> again tomorrow.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |