Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008 09:52:00 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:29:27 +0100 Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008 00:28:57 schrieb Serge Gavrilov:
> > > vuescan       D c066ce00  4972 25367      1
> > >        d8adfdb4 00000046 c066ce00 c066ce00 00000282 d8adfd94 c046c0f9 
> > > d878ac80 
> > >        c066ce00 c2071080 d8be6c70 00000000 00857e29 00000282 d8adfdc4 
> > > 00857e29 
> > >        d8adfe24 d8adfdec c0469d66 00000046 c058a120 e1ba9b94 dfa75c10 
> > > 00857e29 
> > > Call Trace:
> > >  [<c0469d66>] schedule_timeout+0x46/0x90
> > >  [<c0469cee>] io_schedule_timeout+0x1e/0x30
> > >  [<c016fdcb>] congestion_wait+0x7b/0xa0
> > >  [<c016a0ce>] balance_dirty_pages+0xae/0x170
> > >  [<c016a277>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x97/0xb0
> > >  [<c016a1d1>] set_page_dirty_balance+0x41/0x50
> > >  [<c0172bd6>] do_wp_page+0x256/0x470
> > >  [<c01740b9>] handle_mm_fault+0x239/0x2a0
> > >  [<c011c247>] do_page_fault+0x157/0x660
> > >  [<c046c5b2>] error_code+0x72/0x78
> > 
> > This looks like a VM problem. Vuescan just triggers it because a raw scan
> > is huge.
> > 
> 
> This could be caused if a block device isn't performing writes for some 
> reason:
> nothing is cleaning dirty pages, system gets stuck.

Yes, if so, it should be triggerable by dd of a similar amount of data. Serge,
could you dd 200MB or so into a file on your disk?

        Regards
                Oliver

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