Re: long stalls

Juergen Sawinski (juergen.sawinski@mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de)
08 Jan 2003 16:17:39 +0100

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 02:51, Russell Leighton wrote:
>
> I can't help, but I can echo a "me too".
>
> We only see it when I have 2 file I/O intensive processes...they both
> will just stop for some few seconds, system seems idle...then
> they just start again. RH7.3 SMP, Dual PIII, 4GB RAM, 3com RAID Controller .

Same thing here with a Promise SX6000 RAID controller (P4, 1GB RAM,
system is completely on RAID, 2.4.20-pre10-ac1). But, this seems not to
be related. At least in my case, it's the controller that causes the
stalls, 'cause only processes depending on file IO (including swap) get
into D state. Everything else just runs fine.

George

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