Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:56:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:50:53 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:62358 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:50:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3C085B04.50ABE0B5@starband.net> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:22:28 -0500 From: war X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Is it normal for freezing while... 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 Is it normal for a system to lockup while creating a 3GB test file? Following command: dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=3000 The system freezes up for 30-60 seconds for as many as 3-4 times during the creation of the file. Is this normal? Anyway to tweak the /proc settings to avoid system freezing? - 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/