Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933307Ab2J2Vvk (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:51:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:60283 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932986Ab2J2Vvh (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:51:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [72.73.18.11] In-Reply-To: <20121028225109.GA6931@thunk.org> References: <015201cdb54f$844487e0$8ccd97a0$@lucidpixels.com> <20121028225109.GA6931@thunk.org> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:51:37 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 3.6.0 ext4 dump/filemap_fault? From: Justin Piszcz To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 31 On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 05:02:17PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Any idea what happened here (during a backup)? > > A sync system call took longer than two mintues. Why that happened, > it's harder to say. It's a warning, though, and not a fatal panic or > kernel oops. Ah, got it. > > How much memory do you have in your system? 32GB memory/32GB swap > What happened afterwards? It did eventually complete. > Did the system continue, and did the sync command (I presume you ran > "sync" from the command line?) finally return to the command prompt? In this case I did not run sync, I waited for the processes/dump/etc to complete. Thanks. Justin. -- 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/