Submitter : coreym Status : open
Assigned Engineer : nb Priority : 3
*Modified Date : 01/17/01 *Modified User : ak
*Modified User Domain : suse.de *Description :
I ran rwtest on a xfs-linux filesystem on the machine permit:
rwtest 100000000:/mnt1/file_1 >/tmp/file_1.out 2>&1 &
This caused df, ls -l, fdisk, and top all to hang.
Permit is running Redhat 6.2 with a 2.4.0-test5 kernel
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From: andi kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Jan 17 2001 07:05:04AM
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:42:39AM -0600, Bob Albers Jr. wrote:
> >From raa@xxxxxxx Tue Dec 19 17:27:47 2000
> From: "Bob Albers Jr." <raa@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:27:53 -0600 (CST)
> To: "Bob Albers Jr." <raa@xxxxxxx>, Steve Reinhardt <spr@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: when can we expect PV 804570 fixed?
> Cc: jwright@xxxxxxx, nb@xxxxxxx, loriann@xxxxxxx, btg@xxxxxxx (brian gaffey),
> Steve Reinhardt <spr@xxxxxxx>, "Bob Albers Jr." <raa@xxxxxxx>
>
>
> Good news regarding the elevator stall problem - Jens Axboe of the community
> has fixed this problem. We tested it and it works. So now we have to wait
> for
> Linus to accept this fix and for it to show up in a kernel.
The elevator fixes are in 2.4.1pre7
-Andi
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