>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
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