Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-09-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > I think I have found something. I've currently got 4 processes deadlocked > > > on DAC960_WaitForCommand. > > > > > > This machine is a VA Linux VAR Server 3000. > > > > If they stay deadlocked there then let Leonard Zubkoff know. He's both the > > DAC960 guru and happens to work for

Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread David Weis
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I think I have found something. I've currently got 4 processes deadlocked > > on DAC960_WaitForCommand. > > > > This machine is a VA Linux VAR Server 3000. > > If they stay deadlocked there then let Leonard Zubkoff know. He's both the > DAC960 guru and

Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> I think I have found something. I've currently got 4 processes deadlocked > on DAC960_WaitForCommand. > > This machine is a VA Linux VAR Server 3000. If they stay deadlocked there then let Leonard Zubkoff know. He's both the DAC960 guru and happens to work for VA so will know the box too 8)

Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread David Weis
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Please try 2.2.17pre20. THis has various vm and other fixes as well as an > > > updated DAC960 driver > > > > That fixed it partly. I'm still getting lots of uninterruptible processes, > > but it lasted a few hours this time before getting bad. The fre

Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread David Weis
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Please try 2.2.17pre20. THis has various vm and other fixes as well as an > > > updated DAC960 driver > > > > That fixed it partly. I'm still getting lots of uninterruptible processes, > > but it lasted a few hours this time before getting bad. The fre

Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> > Please try 2.2.17pre20. THis has various vm and other fixes as well as an > > updated DAC960 driver > > That fixed it partly. I'm still getting lots of uninterruptible processes, > but it lasted a few hours this time before getting bad. The freeze is > still occurring in schedule(). > > Any

Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread David Weis
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I am running 2.2.16 unpatched on a PII-450 with 512 megs of memory. The > > disk controller is a Mylex DAC960. Recently the machine seems to be > > locking up under moderate load. I wanted to see what was causing it, and > > running setiathome seems to be

Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >Please try 2.2.17pre20. THis has various vm and other fixes as well as an >updated DAC960 driver Note that the change to shrink_mmap to decrease the count in the while clause, it's not fixing any deadlock. To infinite loop the below conditions should be tru

Re: 2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> I am running 2.2.16 unpatched on a PII-450 with 512 megs of memory. The > disk controller is a Mylex DAC960. Recently the machine seems to be > locking up under moderate load. I wanted to see what was causing it, and > running setiathome seems to be a pretty good trigger for it. Using > control-

2.2.16 deadlocking in schedule()

2000-08-30 Thread David Weis
I am running 2.2.16 unpatched on a PII-450 with 512 megs of memory. The disk controller is a Mylex DAC960. Recently the machine seems to be locking up under moderate load. I wanted to see what was causing it, and running setiathome seems to be a pretty good trigger for it. Using control-scroll lo