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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:16:38 -0400 From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> To: "Mr. Berkley Shands" <bshands@...gy.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc9 kswapd infinite loop On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:32:46 -0500 "Mr. Berkley Shands" <bshands@...gy.com> wrote: > I have a reproducible hang with kswapd in the run queue, everything else is > in an i/o wait. The load average is climbing. > Hints anyone (please) as to how to slay this dragon? Since kswapd is running the whole time, sysrq-P could give a useful set of backtraces (with a bit of luck). With a handful of different backtraces it should be obvious which functions kswapd is looping through. Once we have that, I'll try to whip up a patch to get it fixed. -- All Rights Reversed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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