Re: 2.6.14-mm1 RAID-1 in D< state

[Neil Brown]

On Wednesday November 9, bootc@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I haven't noticed this until today...but my load average has been 
> skyrocketing past 3.00 since Monday, which is when I upgraded to 
> 2.6.14-mm1. I've got 3 Software RAID-1 arrays across 4 SATA disks, and 
> all 3 processes are locked in an uninterruptible sleep.
> 
> What's interesting, though, is I haven't noticed a degradation of 
> performance at all, and all the arrays work absolutely fine. They aren't 
> rebuilding or doing anything strange that I can see.
> 
> Any ideas?

Can you
  echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger
  dmesg > /tmp/log
and post the log created, possibly removing everything before
   SysRq : Show State

If you can't find the 'Show State', then maybe your log buffer isn't
big enough.  use 'dmesg -s ...' to make it bigger and try again.

NeilBrown
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