Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269861AbTGKJna (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:43:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269862AbTGKJna (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:43:30 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-203-221-72-236.webone.com.au ([203.221.72.236]:15372 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269861AbTGKJn2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:43:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0E8A22.6020700@cyberone.com.au> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:57:54 +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: "Sergey S. Kostyliov" CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [Bug 898] New: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop responding while extracting big tar archive file. References: <111930000.1057904059@[10.10.2.4]> <200307111346.39731.rathamahata@php4.ru> In-Reply-To: <200307111346.39731.rathamahata@php4.ru> 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: 1207 Lines: 40 Sergey S. Kostyliov wrote: >Hello all, > >On Friday 11 July 2003 10:14, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=898 >> >> Summary: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop >> responding while extracting big tar archive file. >> Kernel Version: 2.5.75 >> Status: NEW >> Severity: high >> Owner: bugme-janitors@lists.osdl.org >> Submitter: bakhtiar@softhome.net >> >> >>Distribution:Slackware v7.1 : glibc v2.1.3 >>Hardware Environment: P!!! 550 MHz, 256 MB RAM. HP Brio BA600 >> > >The same issues here with 2.5.7{4,5}. IO-intencive task got stuck in 'D' >state (bk,rsync,tar - it really doesn't matter). I think a have to get decoded >Alt-SysRq-T for this tasks next time. > You're sure 2.5.74 got processes stuck in D? That means its possibly a driver bug. If you can get 2.5.75 to hang, please also try with elevator=deadline. Thank you. Nick - 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/