Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262143AbUC1UjE (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:39:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262073AbUC1Uim (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:38:42 -0500 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:38092 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262416AbUC1UgU (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:36:20 -0500 To: Marc Giger Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: status of Linux on Alpha? References: <20040328201719.A14868@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20040328204308.C14868@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20040328221806.7fa20502@vaio.gigerstyle.ch> From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:36:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040328221806.7fa20502@vaio.gigerstyle.ch> (Marc Giger's message of "Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:18:06 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6958 Lines: 118 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marc Giger writes: > Hi Ivan, Hi M=E5ns > > I haven't found the time to look deeper into the problem. All what I can > say ATM is, it is real and exists! > > Ivan, perhaps you can give me some useful advise how to debug this > successfully? I think we should begin to try isolating the problem to a > single part of the kernel.=20 > Is it possible that we have a deadlock in the VFS part? After a > while every process that accesses a file will be blocked (already > described). We could start by comparing .config files. Mine is attached. I've been running a 2.6.3 kernel with that configuration since it was released. 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