Keith Owens wrote:
On Wed, 15 May 2002 07:30:09 -0400,
Michael Sinz <msinz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have only been able to see this behavior on my system running the
kernel from the 2.4 XFS CVS tree. It is somewhat reproduceable.
The problem is that I started up a number of "rxvt" sessions and they
took well over a minute to start up. During that time, the cpu
utilization was almost nil. (Less than 1%)
There was a background find operation happening, and this seems to be
the key item.
When the problem occurs, does typing sync get everything running again?
I have been seeing an intermittent lock problem with XFS where
everything stops until some other disk activity kicks in and the lock
is released.
A build of 2.4.18-XFS from CVS on Friday night seems to not show the
problem. At least not over the last 2+ days.
It could also be that I did not run into it either. Just providing
some more information as it develops :-)
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