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From: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:27:04 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080126T142451-347@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801270046.26648.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin <at> yahoo.com.au> writes: 
> On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > I just succeeded to reproduce the problem with this patch. Does this
> > smell like an XFS problem?

I got the same issue using ext3

> Possible. Though I think it is more likely to be a bug in the
> new deadlock avoidance code in the generic buffered write path.
> Dang... I wonder why this hasn't come up earlier. It looks like
> pan's use of writev might be tickling it.
> 
> How quickly can you reproduce this?

When I was using pan daily one month ago, I got it twice over a week

> Can you use strace to see what the hanging syscall looks like?

I tried last week during 5 hours without luck, I can try again


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-26 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21 20:58 Frederik Himpe
2008-01-22  0:05 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22  5:03   ` Mike Galbraith
2008-01-22  5:25     ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22  5:47       ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-04 14:49         ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-04 23:02           ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22 10:38       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-24  5:30       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-26 13:29       ` Frederik Himpe
2008-01-26 13:46         ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-26 14:27           ` Pascal Terjan [this message]
2008-01-28  1:49             ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-28  1:46         ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-28 18:05           ` Frederik Himpe
2008-01-31 22:45           ` Frederik Himpe
2008-02-02  0:53             ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-22 10:37   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 23:00     ` Nick Piggin

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