I have experienced a similar bug removing largish video files (about 4GB or so) from an internal SATA drive formatted with an xfs filesystem.
Sometimes when doing an "rm -rf" on a directory on that file system, the rm will hang and remain pegged at 100% cpu usage. As opposed to other posters in this thread, I don't see any suspicious messages in dmesg about hangs or timeouts, and usually I'm able to "rm -rf" the directory in question from another terminal session without a hang. The only thing that kills the rm is a reboot, kill -9, Ctrl-C and so on all won't work on that process. Please let me know if you need any further logs, I'm running kernel 2.6.32-27-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 1 23:52:12 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux on Linux Mint10 which is based on Maverick 10.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 Title: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
