Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264848AbTE1TkR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 15:40:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264849AbTE1TkR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 15:40:17 -0400 Received: from 4.54.252.64.snet.net ([64.252.54.4]:7563 "EHLO jaymale.blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264848AbTE1TkQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 15:40:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3ED513BB.8080800@blue-labs.org> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:53:31 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030527 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... References: <3ED2DE86.2070406@storadinc.com> <3ED3A2AB.3030907@gmx.net> <3ED3A55E.8080807@storadinc.com> <200305271954.11635.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030528071608.GA5801@moonkingdom.net> In-Reply-To: <20030528071608.GA5801@moonkingdom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1425 Lines: 41 Hmm, odd. I see similar dead time in 2.5.x, it is annoying but I haven't had any time to track it down. I'm currently on .69 and planning on putting .70 on this evening. David Marc Wilson 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! >> >> > >Ok, add my box to the list. Variety of post 2.4.18 kernels, -ac's, -rc's, >etc... all demonstrate it to one degree or another. > >Lately it's gotten REALLY bad. > >Currently I'm using 21-rc2-ac2 and it freezes for upwards of 15 sec >regularly when I'm exercising the HD (three simultaneous brag threads >downloading from various newsgroups). The mouse moves, but other than >that, X is entirely unresponsive. An xterm with continually scrolling >text, for example, will appear to stop scrolling until the kernel comes >back. > >The HD light is on solid the whole time. > >21-rc2 does it too. I haven't tried anything later than that yet. Well, I >tried 20-ck7 and it ate my RAID0 due to a DMA-ism and I've not tested >anything else since. :( > - 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/