Bug#389157: noflushd: Noflushd uses up all the cpu-time it can get

2006-11-16 Thread Udi Meiri
OK it happened today and here's the backtrace: # gdb /usr/sbin/noflushd `pidof noflushd` GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under

Bug#389157: noflushd: Noflushd uses up all the cpu-time it can get

2006-11-16 Thread Udi Meiri
I did a couple more backtraces and got different results (after detaching and reattaching): (gdb) bt #0 0xa7f2c410 in ?? () #1 0xaf9df678 in ?? () #2 0x08056468 in ?? () #3 0x0001 in ?? () #4 0xa7e9e423 in open () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #5 0x0804dbef in sync_part

Bug#389157: noflushd: Noflushd uses up all the cpu-time it can get

2006-11-16 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:04:23AM +0200, Udi Meiri wrote: I did a couple more backtraces and got different results (after detaching and reattaching): Thanks Heiko and Udi for the traces! They seem to indicate that noflushd's main loop is iterated with a zero sleep timeout. I don't see how this

Bug#389157: noflushd: Noflushd uses up all the cpu-time it can get

2006-11-09 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:49:53AM +0200, Udi Meiri wrote: I get this too every week or so, after a daily script that spins up /dev/hda runs (noflushd has already spun it back down when it happens). /dev/sda is not ever spun down (not supposed to be). Hm, this doesn't seem to happen on my test

Bug#389157: noflushd: Noflushd uses up all the cpu-time it can get

2006-11-08 Thread Udi Meiri
I get this too every week or so, after a daily script that spins up /dev/hda runs (noflushd has already spun it back down when it happens). /dev/sda is not ever spun down (not supposed to be). I'm using 2.6.18 with the Con Kolivas patchset (http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/). # ps

Bug#389157: noflushd: Noflushd uses up all the cpu-time it can get

2006-09-24 Thread Heiko Weinen
Package: noflushd Version: 2.7.5-2 Severity: normal This bug is not reproducible here. At random times, noflushd starts eating up all free cpu-cycles and remains to do so until it is restarted by hand or killed. No Log-Messages or similar stuff get recorded. I think it is possible, that this bug

Bug#389157: noflushd: Noflushd uses up all the cpu-time it can get

2006-09-24 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 02:10:32PM +0200, Heiko Weinen wrote: This bug is not reproducible here. At random times, noflushd starts eating up all free cpu-cycles and remains to do so until it is restarted by hand or killed. No Log-Messages or similar stuff get recorded. I think it is possible,