Re: Strange behavior on the 2.4.18 XFS tree?

[Michael Sinz <msinz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2002 07:30:09 -0400, 
> Michael Sinz <msinz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have only been able to see this behavior on my system running the
> > kernel from the 2.4 XFS CVS tree.  It is somewhat reproduceable.
> >
> > The problem is that I started up a number of "rxvt" sessions and they
> > took well over a minute to start up.  During that time, the cpu
> > utilization was almost nil.  (Less than 1%)
> >
> > There was a background find operation happening, and this seems to be
> > the key item.
>
>
> When the problem occurs, does typing sync get everything running again?
> I have been seeing an intermittent lock problem with XFS where
> everything stops until some other disk activity kicks in and the lock
> is released.

I will try that next time it happens.

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