Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 12:41:16 EST


On Tue, 27 May 2003, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> Following is SysRq-T output for stuck processes during such a pause from
>> Christian Klose. Only processes in D state are listed for brevity.
>> Especially the last two call traces are interesting.

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:27:00PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> A "pause" is perfectly fine (to some extent, of course), now a hang is
> not. Is this backtrace from a hanged, unusable kernel or ?

This sounds like deadlocked proceses, but not a whole system hang.
Sounds like a correctness issue, not a performance issue.


-- wli
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