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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: "Sergey S. Kostyliov" <rathamahata@php4.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 898] New: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop responding while extracting big tar  archive file.
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:57:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F0E8A22.6020700@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307111346.39731.rathamahata@php4.ru>



Sergey S. Kostyliov wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>On Friday 11 July 2003 10:14, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
>>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=898
>>
>>           Summary: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop
>>                    responding while extracting big tar  archive file.
>>    Kernel Version: 2.5.75
>>            Status: NEW
>>          Severity: high
>>             Owner: bugme-janitors@lists.osdl.org
>>         Submitter: bakhtiar@softhome.net
>>
>>
>>Distribution:Slackware v7.1 : glibc v2.1.3
>>Hardware Environment: P!!! 550 MHz, 256 MB RAM. HP Brio BA600
>>
>
>The same issues here with 2.5.7{4,5}. IO-intencive task got stuck in 'D'
>state (bk,rsync,tar - it really doesn't matter). I think a have to get decoded
>Alt-SysRq-T for this tasks next time. 
>

You're sure 2.5.74 got processes stuck in D? That means its possibly
a driver bug. If you can get 2.5.75 to hang, please also try with
elevator=deadline. Thank you.

Nick



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-11  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-11  6:14 [Bug 898] New: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop responding while extracting big tar archive file Martin J. Bligh
2003-07-11  9:46 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2003-07-11  9:57   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-07-11 10:45     ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-11 18:39       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-11 19:00         ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-11 20:24         ` Shawn

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