Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> 
>>On Wednesday 28 May 2003 13:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>Guys, you're the ones who can reproduce this.  Please spend more time
>>>working out which chunk (or combination thereof) actually fixes the
>>>problem.  If indeed any of them do.
>>
>>As I said, I will test it this evening. ATM I don't have time to
>>recompile and reboot. This evening I will test extensively, even on
>>SMP, SCSI, IDE and so on.
> 
> May I ask how you are reproducing the bad results? I'm trying in vain
> here...

Quoting Con Kolivas:

dd if=/dev/zero of=dump bs=4096 count=512000

HTH,
Carl-Daniel