From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271187AbTG1XLu (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:11:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271163AbTG1XLs (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:11:48 -0400 Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.50]:6294 "EHLO avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270345AbTG1XLV (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:11:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:13:10 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dbench has intermittent hang on 2.6.0-test1-ac2 Message-ID: <20030728231310.GA15705@rushmore> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i From: rwhron@earthlink.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org dbench 32 hang on 2.6.0-test2. /proc/PID/wchan shows dbench process in sys_pause, /proc/PPID/wchan shows other dbench in sys_wait4. kill -CONT on the two dbench PIDs has the child wchan change to __pdflush, but the processes don't appear to continue, nor exit. After waiting a couple minutes, I did kill on both PIDs and dbench exited. This was ext2 filesystem. Previous was ext3 and reiserfs. sysrq t after "kill -CONT" is at: http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/sysrq.txt -- Randy Hron http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/bigbox.html