Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

[David Ford]

Hmm, odd.  I see similar dead time in 2.5.x, it is annoying but I 
haven't had any time to track it down.  I'm currently on .69 and 
planning on putting .70 on this evening.

David

Marc Wilson wrote:

>On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:04:49PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
>  
>
>>ALL: Anyone who has this kind of pauses/stops/mouse is dead/keyboard is dead/:
>>     speak _NOW_ please, doesn't matter who you are!
>>    
>>
>
>Ok, add my box to the list.  Variety of post 2.4.18 kernels, -ac's, -rc's,
>etc... all demonstrate it to one degree or another.
>
>Lately it's gotten REALLY bad.
>
>Currently I'm using 21-rc2-ac2 and it freezes for upwards of 15 sec
>regularly when I'm exercising the HD (three simultaneous brag threads
>downloading from various newsgroups).  The mouse moves, but other than
>that, X is entirely unresponsive.  An xterm with continually scrolling
>text, for example, will appear to stop scrolling until the kernel comes
>back.
>
>The HD light is on solid the whole time.
>
>21-rc2 does it too.  I haven't tried anything later than that yet. Well, I
>tried 20-ck7 and it ate my RAID0 due to a DMA-ism and I've not tested
>anything else since. :(
>