Re: 2.2.9 hangs in truncate_inode_pages

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:24:15 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 30 May 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Hmm.. That hasn't really changed as far as I can tell, so this must have
>> been a long-time thing that just was exposed by something else. How sure
>> are you that it is truncate_inode_pages()? (Or should I ask "what made you
>> find it"?)
>
>A couple of server boxes I use for testing kept hanging. So in the end
>I put a keyboard/mouse on the hanging boxes and bashed alt-scrolllock and
>co a lot once it stopped.

So it was looping at infinite into truncate_inode_pages? Or was it
sleeping into the __wait_on_page() forever?

Andrea Arcangeli

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