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Re: More processes hanging in 'D' state.

To: Kelledin <kelledin+XFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: More processes hanging in 'D' state.
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:41:19 -0500 (CDT)
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Kelledin wrote:

> Currently, I've got a kernel compiled with the 2003-04-07 
> patchset (excluding the kdb-i386 patch).  It's been running for 
> two days, and just now it got two processes stuck in 'D' state.

<snip>

> (Pardoning my 
> very blunt and rather pointed question, do these patchsets even 
> get a test compile?)

If you got something from
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/patches/weekly-snapshot-patch/,
no, they're just snapshots.  You pays your money (or not), you takes
your chances.  :)  And they certainly don't get tested on alpha, we have
nothing but x86 and ia64 here (and an athlon on the way....)

Anyway, on to your question.  I would have suggested kdb to find out
where the processes were stuck, but that's not going to work for alpha.
If you can think of a way to hit it on an x86 or ia64 box, kdb might help.

What was the exact test (RPM build) you ran?

-Eric


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