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Subject: Re: complete IO hang since a few kernel revision
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:11:51 +0200
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Hi,

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 17:33 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, Ulrich Lukas wrote:
> > A number of patches went into 2.6.32-rc3 which was released today.
> 
> Ok, with 2.6.32-rc3 running now.
> 
> > Can you test if your problems are solved with this latest version?
> 
> Example:
> dpkg-source -x of a big debian source package
> which is more or less untarring a big .tar and then applying a diff
> which is much smaller (tar.gz: 482M, diff.gz: 412k)
> 
> The dpkg-source has finished, I am back at the prompt.
> 
> At the same time a simple
> 	$ <ENTER>
> in a different xterm did not produce *any* thing, no output, for about
> 30 seconds. I mean 30 seconds waiting for an empty command is a bit
> strange I would say.
> 
> I don't know to which this is related, but it seems quite buggy.

I've tried unsuccessfully to reproduce this behavior.

Since it doesn't appear to be something readily reproducible, more
information and/or some digging on your part may be needed.

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