Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> writes:
> I have seen it repeatedly
>
> One process is doing heavy i/o
>
> Other processes can no longer access the network.
>
> i.e. finger @ftp.kernel.org keeps stalling, ssh connections not
> established etc. Irc is getting extremely bursty.
>
> If I get 2.2.14 up all will be fine.
Where does the network process hang (check with ps -eo pid,args,wchan) ?
It probably cannot get a free page to send the packet and is waiting for
memory.
-Andi
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