Hi Rick -
If you have kdb, it might be interesting to look at the backtrace of
the stuck rm process, to see where it's at:
kdb> btp <pid>
kdb> go
How long have you waited for it to get "unstuck?"
-Eric
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Richard Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> I am experiencing a problem where a "rm -rf" command acting on a 450GB
> XFS partition will hang approximately once per day. The system is running a
> daemon that issues rm commands throughout the day and 99% of commands proceed
> without hanging. The system is using the 2.4.20-rc1 XFS kernel compiled with
> gcc 2.96 on a dual P4 xeon server. The XFS partition uses the linux software
> raid at level 0 with the XFS partition built on the resultant device.
> Once the rm process is hung, other processes trying to access the XFS
> filesystem are blocked, but the system is still responsive. Killing the hung
> process frees up the filesystem and re-issuing the identical command that
> originally hung will proceed without failure. Could this be a similar problem
> as the one that caused hanging processes where the kernel was compiled with
> gcc 2.95? Any help appreciated.
>
> Rick Smith
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