Re: 2.6.12.3 lockup with lots of D state processes

2005-08-08 Thread Rob Mueller
Just an update to this, I've found some more information. I can now reliably reproduce this lock up. I was trying to remove a large number of files from a reiserfs partition nohup rm -rf /var/spool/imap3/?/user/.migrated/*& And just a second or two after I started that command, I got a message

2.6.12.3 lockup with lots of D state processes

2005-08-07 Thread Rob Mueller
I have a feeling this might be related back to this issue... http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.1/1518.html As a reminder: we've been running a number of IBM x235 machines with 6G of RAM with a 2.6.12.3 kernel fine for a couple of weeks now. Last night one of the machines start