On 01/07/2008 02:06 PM, Brice Figureau wrote: > Thanks for the answer. > I'm using whatever is the default mount option (which I think is > data=ordered). The only other mount option I use is nodiratime,noatime. > > Note that a large part of the processes in D state are "waiting" in > __mutex_lock from generic_file_aio_write. > Another large part is coming from balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr. > > It seems that there was some writeback congestion to the block device. > All the /proc/sys/vm/* files are at their defaults. > > This looks like if it wasn't possible to write to the block device anymore. > Could a block device write error (ie hardware failure) be the root cause? > > Any other idea? > What should I try the next time it freezes?
Same bug as http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/469 ?? -- 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/