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From: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net>
To: "Marc-Christian Petersen" <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "manish" <manish@storadinc.com>,
       "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>,
       "Andrea Arcangeli" <andrea@suse.de>,
       "Marcelo Tosatti" <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
       "Christian Klose" <christian.klose@freenet.de>,
       "William Lee Irwin III" <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       "Georg Nikodym" <georgn@somanetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 18:26:10 -0500
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> ALL: Anyone who has this kind of pauses/stops/mouse is dead/keyboard
> is dead/:  speak _NOW_ please, doesn't matter who you are!

I've been able to reproduce the pauses on two different machines/mb/processor,
although each machine has >= 2.5GB ram.  I can reproduce this in 2.4.19, 2.4.20,
and the 2.4.21-rc1/rc2/rc3.

After the machine un-pauses, everything completes/returns to normal.  I don't
experience deadlocked processes.

Both my machines are IDE, using UDMA, hdparam stuff is maxxed; messing with
bdflush, elvtune doesn't make any difference.  Limiting the ram on the machines
didn't help.

Pauses have lasted anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. Anything later
than 2.4.18 is unusable for me because of this.

-Chris


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