Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:32:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:32:02 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:28594 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:32:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:37:51 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Andrew Morton Cc: Patrick Mau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pdflush in D state Message-ID: <20030206123751.GB3305@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Patrick Mau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030205231259.GA5339@oscar.ping.de> <20030205234139.237887a7.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030205234139.237887a7.akpm@digeo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 24 On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:41:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > At a guess, I'd say that a disk device driver has dropped an interrupt and > I/O completion has not happened. > > Check your kernel log and dmesg output for anything untoward, and then try > invoking sysrq-P and sysrq-T to find out where everythihg is stuck. Unrelated to this problem, but it reminded me... I've not heard any compelling arguments saying that these[1] patches are wrong. Dave [1] http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.1/2217.html -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/