Re: [LNX-XFS] Re: [LNX-XFS] Re: large file problems with 2.4.25-pre4

[Kelsey Cummings <kgc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Acutally, I should clarify the problem.

I just realized that the box doens't completely lock up, IO to the XFS
formatted filesystems just become very very slow and go into some kind of
CPU hog loop:

    9 root      20   0     0    0     0 RW   94.9  0.0   5:35 kupdated
    8 root      20   0     0    0     0 RW   93.0  0.0   6:05 bdflush
    7 root      20   0     0    0     0 RW   53.9  0.0   3:24 kswapd
  865 root      15   0  1552  508   464 R    53.0  0.0   3:14 dd
  757 root      14   0  1552  508   460 R    52.1  0.0   3:52 dd
  803 root      14   0   628  628   516 R    51.1  0.0   1:08 iostat

I'll see if I can't the resident kernel hacker to help track this down a
bit further.

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