Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751832AbWLNIes (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:34:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751833AbWLNIes (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:34:48 -0500 Received: from jdi.jdi-ict.nl ([82.94.239.5]:48163 "EHLO jdi.jdi-ict.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751832AbWLNIer (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:34:47 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1101 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:34:47 EST Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:15:39 +0100 (CET) From: Igmar Palsenberg X-X-Sender: igmar@jdi.jdi-ict.nl To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, erich Subject: Re: 2.6.16.32 stuck in generic_file_aio_write() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20061130212248.1b49bd32.akpm@osdl.org> <20061206074008.2f308b2b.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.12 (jdi.jdi-ict.nl [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:15:41 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 771 Lines: 24 > > I'll put a .config and a dmesg of the machine booting at > > http://www.jdi-ict.nl/plain/ for those who want to look at it. > > dmesg : http://www.jdi-ict.nl/plain/lnx01.dmesg > Kernel config : http://www.jdi-ict.nl/plain/lnx01.config Hmm.. Switching CONFIG_HZ from 1000 to 250 seems to 'fix' the problem. I haven't seen the issue in nearly a week now. This makes Andrew's theory about missing interrupts very likely. Andrew / others : Is there a way to find out if it *is* missing interrupts ? Regards, Igmar - 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/