Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-24 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:04 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > Whats happening on my machine is .. > > > > dbench forks of 4 children and sends them a signal to start the work. > > 3 out of 4 children gets the signal and does the work. One of th

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-24 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:04 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > Whats happening on my machine is .. > > > > dbench forks of 4 children and sends them a signal to start the work. > > 3 out of 4 children gets the signal and does the work. One of th

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Whats happening on my machine is .. > > dbench forks of 4 children and sends them a signal to start the work. > 3 out of 4 children gets the signal and does the work. One of the child > never gets the signal so, it waits forever in pause(). So, p

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:01:58 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I managed to reproduce the dbench problem. (not sure if its the same > thing or not - but symptoms are same). My problem has nothing to do > with ext3. I can produce it on ext2, jfs also. > > Whats hap

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-24 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi Andy, I managed to reproduce the dbench problem. (not sure if its the same thing or not - but symptoms are same). My problem has nothing to do with ext3. I can produce it on ext2, jfs also. Whats happening on my machine is .. dbench forks of 4 children and sends them a signal to start the wo

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-19 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:49:05AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:30:49PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > Annoyingly this seems to be intermittent, and I have not managed to get > > a machine into this state again yet. Will keep trying. > > Ok, I have been completly un

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-14 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:30:49PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Annoyingly this seems to be intermittent, and I have not managed to get > a machine into this state again yet. Will keep trying. Ok, I have been completly unsuccessful in reproducing this. Dispite having two distinct machines show

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-11 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Annoyingly this seems to be intermittent, and I have not managed to get a machine into this state again yet. Will keep trying. -apw - 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.or

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > I have a couple of failed test runs against 2.6.23-rc6 where the > job timed out while running dbench over ext3. Both on powerpc, > though both significantly different hardware setups. A failed > run like this implies that the machine was still res

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-11 Thread Jan Kara
> I have a couple of failed test runs against 2.6.23-rc6 where the > job timed out while running dbench over ext3. Both on powerpc, > though both significantly different hardware setups. A failed > run like this implies that the machine was still responsive to > other processes but the dbench was

2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-11 Thread Andy Whitcroft
I have a couple of failed test runs against 2.6.23-rc6 where the job timed out while running dbench over ext3. Both on powerpc, though both significantly different hardware setups. A failed run like this implies that the machine was still responsive to other processes but the dbench was making no