Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261719AbTI3Vzd (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:55:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261733AbTI3Vzd (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:55:33 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:207 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261719AbTI3Vz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:55:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:35:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Simon Kirby Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test5-bk13] SIGSTOPping tar extraction process causes other I/O processes to block Message-Id: <20030930143503.4b66c4c4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030930183948.GA31055@netnation.com> References: <20030930183948.GA31055@netnation.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Simon Kirby wrote: > > I was extracting a large tarball of 2 MB image files and running and > apt-get remove at the same time, realized the disk was thrashing back > and forth, and decided to suspend the tar process until the apt-get was > finished. When I suspended the tar, apt-get never finished. Right-alt > SysRQ (SysRQ-T) dumped the following traces for the processes in > question: If you still have the full sysrq trace, please send it along. Need to know what kjournald was up to.. - 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/