Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb Fengguang Wu: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:03:05AM +0100, Joerg Platte wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008 schrieb Fengguang Wu: > > > > problem, because the iowait problem disappeared today after the > > > > regular Debian update. I'll try to install the old package versions > > > > to make it show up again. Maybe that helps to debug it. > > > > > > Thank you. I'm running sid, ext2 as rootfs now ;-) > > > > The error is back and I'm getting thousands of messages like this with > > the patched kernel: > > > > mm/page-writeback.c 668 wb_kupdate: pdflush(146) 21115 global 3936 0 0 wc > > _M > tw 1024 sk 0 requeue_io 301: inode 81441 size 0 at 08:07(sda7) > > mm/page-writeback.c 668 wb_kupdate: pdflush(147) 17451 global 3936 0 0 wc > > _M > tw 1024 sk 2 requeue_io 301: inode 81441 size 0 at 08:07(sda7) > > mm/page-writeback.c 668 wb_kupdate: pdflush(147) 17451 global 3936 0 0 wc > > _M > tw 1024 sk 2 requeue_io 301: inode 81441 size 0 at 08:07(sda7) > > Joerg, what's the output of `dumpe2fs /dev/sda7` and `lsof|grep /tmp`?
After another reboot I tried to get more information about the konqueror process possibly causing the iowait load by using strace -p. Here is the output: gettimeofday({1200180588, 878508}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGVTALRM, {SIG_DFL}, {0xb5cffed0, [VTALRM], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180588, 879942}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180588 gettimeofday({1200180588, 880838}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180588, 881284}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180588 gettimeofday({1200180588, 882131}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180588, 882572}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180588, 883477}, NULL) = 0 select(16, [5 6 7 9 11 14 15], [], [], {0, 150095}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1200180589, 34269}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 34885}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180589 gettimeofday({1200180589, 36672}, NULL) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGVTALRM, {0xb5cffed0, [VTALRM], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, {it_interval={10, 0}, it_value={5, 0}}, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 38555}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180589 gettimeofday({1200180589, 39802}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGVTALRM, {SIG_DFL}, {0xb5cffed0, [VTALRM], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 40912}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180589 gettimeofday({1200180589, 42019}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 42458}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180589 gettimeofday({1200180589, 43303}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 43747}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 45834}, NULL) = 0 select(16, [5 6 7 9 11 14 15], [], [], {0, 149913}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1200180589, 194815}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 195730}, NULL) = 0 select(16, [5 6 7 9 11 14 15], [], [], {0, 17}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1200180589, 197555}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 198020}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180589 gettimeofday({1200180589, 198884}, NULL) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGVTALRM, {0xb5cffed0, [VTALRM], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, {it_interval={10, 0}, it_value={5, 0}}, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 200702}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180589 gettimeofday({1200180589, 200806}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGVTALRM, {SIG_DFL}, {0xb5cffed0, [VTALRM], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 202975}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180589 gettimeofday({1200180589, 203837}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 204319}, NULL) = 0 time(NULL) = 1200180589 gettimeofday({1200180589, 205169}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 205613}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1200180589, 206515}, NULL) = 0 select(16, [5 6 7 9 11 14 15], [], [], {0, 149098} <unfinished ...> Fengguang, do you have any idea what's going wrong here? regards, Jörg -- PGP Key: send mail with subject 'SEND PGP-KEY' PGP Key-ID: FD 4E 21 1D PGP Fingerprint: 388A872AFC5649D3 BCEC65778BE0C605 -- 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/