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Re: 2.4.19xfs + preempt causes hangs?

To: Christian Lambert <clambert@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.4.19xfs + preempt causes hangs?
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 14 Oct 2002 12:06:02 -0500
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Hi Christian -

I don't have a lot of experience with pre-empt, but the best thing to do
would be to break into KDB and see which process is hung, and what it's
hung on... if you have kdb....

-Eric

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 12:00, Christian Lambert wrote:
> 
> I've been running a stock debian 2.4.19 + xfs2.4.19 snapshot patch + preempt
> and this worked fine for like 3-4 days now.  But this morning I came up
> and my system hung up when I did "ls" in the console.   Then everything
> hung up from there and lead eventually to X hanging as well, the hard drive
> light was solid "on".   I have a mix of reiserfs and xfs filesystems so I'm
> not sure what caused it, but I wanted to know if this is known to cause
> problems or it's supposed to work?  I'm not using lock-break, just preempt.
> I think what might have trigged this hang is the updatedb (for locate) that
> ran during the night and maybe have hosed things up scanning thru the 
> filesystems.
> 
> -Christian
> 
> 
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