Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

[David Ford (david+cert@blue-labs.org)]

Hmm, odd.  I see similar dead time in 2.5.x, it is annoying but I 
haven't had any time to track it down.  I'm currently on .69 and 
planning on putting .70 on this evening.

David

Marc Wilson wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:04:49PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
>  
>
> > ALL: Anyone who has this kind of pauses/stops/mouse is dead/keyboard is dead/:
> >     speak _NOW_ please, doesn't matter who you are!
> >    
>
> Ok, add my box to the list.  Variety of post 2.4.18 kernels, -ac's, -rc's,
> etc... all demonstrate it to one degree or another.
>
> Lately it's gotten REALLY bad.
>
> Currently I'm using 21-rc2-ac2 and it freezes for upwards of 15 sec
> regularly when I'm exercising the HD (three simultaneous brag threads
> downloading from various newsgroups).  The mouse moves, but other than
> that, X is entirely unresponsive.  An xterm with continually scrolling
> text, for example, will appear to stop scrolling until the kernel comes
> back.
>
> The HD light is on solid the whole time.
>
> 21-rc2 does it too.  I haven't tried anything later than that yet. Well, I
> tried 20-ck7 and it ate my RAID0 due to a DMA-ism and I've not tested
> anything else since. :(


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