Changes that went in on May 24th caused the problems.
I checked the tree out on the morning of 24 May and Steve dropped a few
changes to get XFS out of the irq business later that day.
I checked the tree out again before I went home.
The first one works perfectly, the second one shows the behaviour described.
I checked with kdb to see what happends when everythings pauses.
keventd is shown to be running when I do a ps.
It is busy doing "schedule"
The cp that shows the pause behaviour are also in "schedule".
It looks like same kind of deadlock that resolves it self after a while.
It takes between 5 to 30 seconds for the cp to continue.
Hope this helps.
Paul
Florin Iucha wrote:
> I have noticed the same problems with 2.4.18 from XFS CVS from May 25.
>
> They do not occur with 2.4.18 from XFS CVS dated Apr 17.
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> The compiler is
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
> gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
>
> I am using this compiler for a long time now (last summer) to compile
> XFS enabled kernels without problems. It is a home machine though...
>
> florin
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