Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261186AbUCLKJT (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:09:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261764AbUCLKJS (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:09:18 -0500 Received: from mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.167]:32909 "EHLO mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261186AbUCLKJP (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:09:15 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: "Anders K. Pedersen" Subject: Re: 2.6.3 userspace freeze Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:08:41 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: "Jan Kara" , "Andrew Morton" , References: <222BE5975A4813449559163F8F8CF503458441@cohsrv1.cohaesio.com> In-Reply-To: <222BE5975A4813449559163F8F8CF503458441@cohsrv1.cohaesio.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403122108.41746.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 21 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:47 pm, Anders K. Pedersen wrote: > To night I reproduced this issue with Linux 2.6.4 final - I've attached > the dmesg and .config for this kernel. > 23536 root 34 19 1664 720 1368 D N 6.0 0.0 0:00 1 > updatedb Each log you've shown so far shows you getting updatedb stuck in D which appears to be the common link. It could be your updatedb is busy scanning directories it probably shouldn't. Check your updatedb.conf (usually in /etc) and see that you have at least these entries in PRUNEFS PRUNEFS="nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,supermount,vfat,iso9660,udf,usbdevfs,devfs,usbfs,sysfs" Con - 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/