From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264024AbTKDJ3X (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 04:29:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264025AbTKDJ3X (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 04:29:23 -0500 Received: from gate.firmix.at ([80.109.18.208]:20617 "EHLO gate.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264024AbTKDJ3J (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 04:29:09 -0500 Subject: Re: All filesystems hang under long periods of heavy load (read and write) on a filesystem From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Shirley Shi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3FA6E8CE.6040208@kasenna.com> References: <3FA6E8CE.6040208@kasenna.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1067938084.8301.6.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:28:05 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Die, 2003-11-04 at 00:46, Shirley Shi wrote: > filesystem(ext2 or XFS) since we need do some tests for the storage. Is > half day, onn the beginning, the system was running well. But after > running the script for a long time, such a half day, one day or two > days, all filesystems would get hung, including the root filesystem > although I didn't do any heavy load on it. The file(M.1) I used for > reading and writing is about 2.5GB. Wild guess: Perhaps a memory leak somewhere in the kernel and it shows up after $BIG_NUMBER of operations? Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services