Re: sync problem in 2.2.5

Andre.Couture (acouture@search-n-find.com)
21 Apr 1999 07:04:53 -0700


Here is something else I did that might be usefull;

While the sync command died while wait_on_dqu...
I did a quotaoff -a

Here is ps lwa | grep D

FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND
0 0 2325 821 0 0 1020 324 wait_on_dqu D ? 0:00 sync
100 0 2347 2329 0 0 1040 388 wait_on_sup D ? 0:00 quotaoff -a

So turning off quota again, and let see.

/andre

On Tue, 20 April 1999, Jan Kara wrote:

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> Hello.
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> > Worked!!!
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> > All I did is to remove the /quota* files and then quotaoff -a
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> > No more problems... so far
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> > I have tryied what normally locks up systematicaly the sync command.
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> > While heavy Disk IO doing a sync and no more problems.
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> > So I really, so far, suspect problems in the quota code in the kernel.
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> > Can somebody verify that and confirm my problem?
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> I've written a patch for quotas which should fix various races and
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> also maybe your problem. I'd be delighted if you can try it and send me
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> results.
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> Thanks Honza.
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> PS: patch against 2.2.6 is attached (I haven't tried to compile it with 2.2.6
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> yet but I already have one content user of this patch with this kernel ;-)).
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Andre Couture
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