Nick Piggin <nickpiggin <at> yahoo.com.au> writes: > On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > I just succeeded to reproduce the problem with this patch. Does this > > smell like an XFS problem?
I got the same issue using ext3 > Possible. Though I think it is more likely to be a bug in the > new deadlock avoidance code in the generic buffered write path. > Dang... I wonder why this hasn't come up earlier. It looks like > pan's use of writev might be tickling it. > > How quickly can you reproduce this? When I was using pan daily one month ago, I got it twice over a week > Can you use strace to see what the hanging syscall looks like? I tried last week during 5 hours without luck, I can try again -- 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/
