On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:25:41 +0100 richard kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's all a bit crappy if the wrong races happen and some other task is > > somehow exceeding the dirty limits each time this task polls them. Seems > > unlikely that such a condition would persist forever. > > > > So the question is, why do we have large amounts of dirty pages for one > > disk which appear to be sitting there not getting written? > > The lockup I'm seeing intermittently occurs when I have 2+ tasks copying > large files (1Gb+) on sda & a small read-mainly mysql db app running on > sdb. The lockup seems to happen just after the copies finish -- there > are lots of dirty pages but nothing left to write them until kupdate > gets round to it. Then what happens? The system recovers? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
