-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Saïvann Carignan wrote: > Theodore Ts'o : I noticed that this bug is more likely to happen on > partitions that does not have many space left, in case that this give > you some hint. I have a 30 Gb partition which has only 3 Gb left. The > bug can be reproduced immediately each time on that partition. I have a > 700 Gb partition with 500 Gb left, it's pretty hard to reproduce the > issue on it. > The two machines I've been able to reproduce this on have a root partition of around 20GB. One has about 13GB of free space, and the other has about 15GB of free space. hang.py is writing to /tmp so in this case the writing and deleting is happening on the root file system.
> One other question --- for the people that have managed to reproduce, do > you know if there was any files getting created or otherwise blocks > getting allocated on the filesystem under test, or is an "rm -rf" of > some hierarchy in the filesystem sufficient on its own to cause the > system to hang? hang.py is creating a bunch of files in /tmp/test and then deleting them all from test/. So it's only deleting files, not a hierarchy of any sort. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknmF28ACgkQAGHzB9Tvw4wzVwCdHYSivqxE1KQJZ5ANhOMMWanJ VPYAoIKBjVPK27+K39OeBaa4pnGfSrDR =fUB+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs