Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264634AbTE1Jcg (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 05:32:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264635AbTE1Jcg (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 05:32:36 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:20687 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264634AbTE1Jce (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 05:32:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:45:35 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa Cc: Marc-Christian Petersen , manish , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Andrea Arcangeli , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Klose , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... Message-ID: <20030528094535.GI845@suse.de> References: <3ED2DE86.2070406@storadinc.com> <3ED3A2AB.3030907@gmx.net> <3ED3A55E.8080807@storadinc.com> <200305271954.11635.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030528093654.GA20687@linalco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030528093654.GA20687@linalco.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1131 Lines: 28 On Wed, May 28 2003, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:04:49PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > > > > ALL: Anyone who has this kind of pauses/stops/mouse is dead/keyboard is dead/: > > speak _NOW_ please, doesn't matter who you are! > > FWIW, me too. > > Actually it just happens in the fixing stage when burning prebuilt iso > images from the hard disk (same IDE channel as the burner, 2.4.20) > Having a completely frozen machine under X was quite panic inducing ;) > > A friend told me they also get regular "pauses" when quitting from > vmware. Lemme guess, hard drive on the same channel as the burner? There's nothing we can do about that, hardware limitation. The reason you see it during fixation is because that's one long single command, and we cannot preempt the channel and service requests while that is going on. -- Jens Axboe - 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/