Philippe> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
>> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>
>> >slocate 11284 wait_on_buffer
>>
>> Which kind of HD are you using? IDE/SCSI whatever? That's a device
>> driver or hardware problem. If you are IDE you may want to hdparm
>> -u0 /dev/hd*.
Philippe> I've also seen that on 2.2.13. 2.2.12 seems fine. It's on a
Philippe> SMP box with 2 Pentium Pros. Linux 2.2.12 + HJL's knfs
Philippe> patches (1.5.2).
Well, I thought my problem was perhaps related to the scsi cdrom
locking issues that had cropped up. I booted in 2.2.14pre8 (which has
the fix for the scsi cdrom thing).
Everything looked good for about 6 days, and then all of a sudden, the
stuck processes were back:
root 25497 0.0 0.1 1284 492 ? S Nov25 0:00 CROND
root 26316 0.0 0.1 1112 444 ? D Nov25 0:33 /usr/bin/slocate -u -e /home/rahl1,/home/rahl2,/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/proc
root 6620 0.0 0.1 1288 508 ? S Nov26 0:00 CROND
root 6624 0.0 0.3 1488 804 ? D Nov26 0:00 rdump -9uaf rahl /dev/nst0 /home/jelerak1
root 9438 0.0 0.1 1284 492 ? S Nov26 0:00 CROND
root 10638 0.0 0.1 1112 444 ? D Nov26 0:35 /usr/bin/slocate -u -e /home/rahl1,/home/rahl2,/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/proc
26316 /usr/bin/slocate wait_on_buffer
10638 /usr/bin/slocate down_failed
6624 rdump -9uaf rahl wait_on_buffer
It could be dodgy hardware, but which? There are no errors. I can
access both my scsi disks, my scsi cdrom, and the ide cdrom. If I do a
'sync' it also gets stuck:
25221 sync wait_on_buffer
anyone have any ideas? Anything I can do to get it to indicate what
buffer it's waiting on?
Philippe> Phil.
kevin
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