Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:10:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:10:42 -0500 Received: from 216-42-72-146.ppp.netsville.net ([216.42.72.146]:52158 "EHLO roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:10:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:09:19 -0500 From: Chris Mason To: r.ems@gmx.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.18 freezes on heavy IO Message-ID: <2183930000.1016460559@tiny> In-Reply-To: <3C95F129.7D9744B5@gmx.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday, March 18, 2002 02:52:41 PM +0100 Richard Ems wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm seeing my system freeze on heavy IO. Only the reset button brings it > back to life again (ALT-SysRq-b also worked once). I'm running SuSE's > 2.4.18-30 on a Pentium III (Coppermine) with 256 MB RAM (yes, I should > try vanilla 2.4.18, I will ...) > No SCSI, all IDE. LVM and ext3. Which rpm? k_i386, k_deflt, k_psmp, k_smp? This is probably the (aa specific) ext3 deadlock recently fixed by andrea and andrew. -chris - 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/