On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:46:59AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > What could cause this? I use NFS4 to automount the home directories > > from a Solaris10 server, and this box found a few bugs in the NFS4 > > code (fixed in the 2.6.22 kernel). > > > > I'll try running with 2.6.23 again for a few days, to see if I get the > > pdflush stuck. Any other ideas? > > One of them appears to be waiting for i/o congestion to clear up. If the > filesystem is NFS, then that means that some other thread is busy > writing data out to the server. You'll need to look at the rest of the > thread dump to figure out which thread is writing the data out, and > where it is getting stuck.
Trond, The full dmesg is at http://iucha.net/2.6.24-rc1/dmesg.stuck_pdflush.gz Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163
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