[opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-10-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, This is a very uncool situation. I encounter these processes hanging in D waits quite a lot and it is very disruptive. Whatever the problem is, and it seems to be one of those bugs exacerbated by multi-core systems that we've known was g

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > How come comments #19 through #22 don't appear? Comments #1 through #18 are there, then it skips to #23 and #24. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-01 Thread Anders Johansson
On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:46:35 Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > How come comments #19 through #22 don't appear? Comments #1 through #18 > are there, then it skips to

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Kevan
On Friday 02 November 2007 09:54:56 am Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > ... > > > > -==--==--==--==--==--==--==-

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 02 November 2007 10:19, Ben Kevan wrote: > ... > > Have you tried applying the patch? That's not my thing. I'll wait for a release. > Ben RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Kevan
On Friday 02 November 2007 10:24:55 am Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 02 November 2007 10:19, Ben Kevan wrote: > > ... > > > > Have you tried applying the patch? > > That's not my thing. I'll wait for a release. > > > Ben > > RRS Ok let me rephrase.. Has anybody tested and wrote off the fix

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > > > ... -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- [PATCH] reiserfs: bad unlock in reiserfs_xat

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 02 November 2007 10:33, Ben Kevan wrote: > ... > > Has anybody tested and wrote off the fix in a real-time enviroment? What does "real-time" have to do with it? > ... > > Ben Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Kevan
On Friday 02 November 2007 11:09:53 am Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 02 November 2007 10:33, Ben Kevan wrote: > > ... > > > > Has anybody tested and wrote off the fix in a real-time enviroment? > > What does "real-time" have to do with it? > > > ... > > > > Ben > > Randall Schulz I am guessi

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-03 Thread Jeff Mahoney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Kevan wrote: > On Friday 02 November 2007 09:54:56 am Randall R Schulz wrote: >> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> ... >>

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-03 Thread Ben Kevan
On Saturday 03 November 2007 07:15:25 am you wrote: > > It wouldn't be in vanilla 2.6.23, but it would be in the CVS HEAD kernel > based on 2.6.23. > > Today's KOTD kernel[1,2] should have the fix included. This is the tree > that will eventually be the update kernel. > > -Jeff > > [1] ftp://ftp.su

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-05 Thread Jeff Mahoney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Kevan wrote: > On Saturday 03 November 2007 07:15:25 am you wrote: >> It wouldn't be in vanilla 2.6.23, but it would be in the CVS HEAD kernel >> based on 2.6.23. >> >> Today's KOTD kernel[1,2] should have the fix included. This is the tree >> that

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 05 November 2007 08:13, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > ... > > > > When do you think the kernel will get signed off for update? Also, > > what other fixes may be incorporated with the next release? > > It's in the hands of our maintenance team now, but it should be soon. Great. I experience the R

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-06 Thread gabriel . schwartz
Jeff, when do you think to do it the team ? Aprox. what date ? thanks a lot. > > The highlights for the fixes for this release are: > > > > * Update to 2.6.22.10 > > * Fix kernel hang during OCFS2 cluster initialization > > * Fix error during OCFS2 disk heartbeat writing > > * Fix Oops during nat

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-11-05 at 11:13 -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote: * Fix for first lid closing not triggering suspend My machine refuses to suspend on events. Can that be related? (reported on another thread) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEG

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-11-02 at 11:35 -0700, Ben Kevan wrote: Has anybody tested and wrote off the fix in a real-time enviroment? What does "real-time" have to do with it? ... Crunching numbers at times is great, but testing in the real world someti

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > > > ... > > How close is Novell to releasing a fix? -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-08 Thread Jeff Mahoney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeff, when do you think to do it the team ? Aprox. what date ? Sorry, I missed this. Then openSUSE list is high enough traffic that I can't follow every thread unless I'm CC'd. I just happened to look this up again. The upd

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:02, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > ... > > > > How close is Novell to releasing a fix? > >

Re: [opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-11-08 Thread Will Stephenson
On Thursday 08 November 2007 20:00:49 Randall R Schulz wrote: > It's there. And none too soon. I had a pile of D-wait-state processes > just trying to reboot after installing the new kernel. FWIW, I've been thrashing the update kernel for the past couple of days by repeatedly building KDE 4 on it