Re: Strange behavior on the 2.4.18 XFS tree?

[Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com>]

Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2002 07:30:09 -0400, 
> Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com> 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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