Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266793AbTGGCNJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:13:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266796AbTGGCNJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:13:09 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-243-115.webone.com.au ([210.9.243.115]:16132 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266793AbTGGCMw (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:12:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3F08DA84.7010500@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 12:27:16 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030618 Debian/1.3.1-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Barry K. Nathan" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [BUG] heavy disk access sometimes freezes 2.5.73-mm[123] References: <20030703090541.GB5044@ip68-101-124-193.oc.oc.cox.net> <20030706204630.GA2904@ip68-4-255-84.oc.oc.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20030706204630.GA2904@ip68-4-255-84.oc.oc.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1334 Lines: 39 Hi Barry, How repeatable are the freezes? Would you be able to get a new kernel, and capture a sysrq-T trace once the system has frozen? Then would you try booting with elevator=deadline and see if you can get it to freeze? Thanks Nick Barry K. Nathan wrote: >On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:05:41AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > >>When I run 2.5.73-mm[123] on a Mandrake Cooker system here, it generally >>runs fine. However, when I run "urpmi --auto-select" to upgrade the >>packages to the latest versions, rpm tends to freeze up during >>installation of one of the packages. This did not seem to happen with >>2.5.70-mm9, which was the kernel I ran before 2.5.73-mm1. >> >[snip] > >I've figured things out a bit more and filed a Bugzilla report: >http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877 > >-Barry K. Nathan >- >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/ > > > - 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/