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Re: stuck in sv_wait

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Subject: Re: stuck in sv_wait
From: Vernon McPherron <vernon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:58:05 -0600
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Doing any kind of work on an xfs mounted partition, results in processes
> stuck in sv_wait... This occurs on both IDE and SCSI, with and without
> kio (cluster or plain) enabled.
> 
> Although rm or cp will be uninterruptibly stuck in sv_wait, they do come
> to life ocassionally and perform some I/O. But most of the time is spent
> sleeping, without any I/O getting done. Here's a backtrace of rm:
>
> This is pretty much preventing me from doing a final beat up of IDE
> kiobuf support, since it's impossible to trash the disk. Any clues?

Ah, so I'm not the only one that saw this.  I was using the Aug 17th
cvs.

Haven't tried since then, is there something I'm doing or not doing?

-=/Vernon McPherron/=-

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